hii omg this make me so happy! congratulations on returning to writing, and i’m really glad that i could help you find interest and motivation in it again!!

as for tips, the best thing that i’ve ever done for myself is to get in the habit of writing every day - i think building it gradually through 100, and then 200, and then 500 words a day over the course of months has been so useful! long word counts no longer feel daunting and writing has just become another natural part of my day that doesn’t feel like a big task.

for inspo, i keep a separate doc that is just for ideas — one liners and prompts that i think of randomly while making dinner or in the shower or before bed that i’ll just jot down. some bits in there are like three to five paragraph passages that i felt compelled to write after seeing a photograph or even seeing like a clip of a video! the doc has become this huge unwieldy thing after years of upkeep lmao but it doesn’t feel daunting bc they’re not real wips and it’s been invaluable whenever i’m stumped or am looking for something that i want to start writing.

and my last piece of advice is about two years ago i started keeping a list in my notes app titled ‘words to use in writing’ and it’s just words that i come across while reading or in my every day life that i’m like oh this is such a specific word that conveys emotion, or oh i never thought about using this word in this way before. i draw on it regularly when i am writing and it has been so, so helpful. it’s almost like a personal thesaurus, except it’s all words that i already know the meaning of but which i never would have conjured up on my own to use if that makes sense. some examples of words in there are: drowsy, serene, dewy, unsettle, malady, gossamer.

basically the tldr is that making my own pool of specially-tailored resources (of things that i know i like writing about, things that i naturally gravitate towards) has been so helpful for writing! i hope this has been useful, and good luck!! if you’d ever like to share your writing with me, i’d love to read it!