Music is definitely a big part of it for me, though certainly not exclusively the only factor. I actually have music that works for specific characters, scenarios, and concepts. This really does induce a sort of meditative state in me, so I'm under the impression that music possibly impacts me a bit heavier than a lot of writers in some regards; people who share this trait are not entirely unheard of to me though. I actually [i]don't[/i] have this issue that a lot of role-players seem to have when it comes to feeling like writing is a chore. If I have an idea that I find [i]engaging[/i] then I will always enjoy writing it, so the only time it would ever become boring to me is if I'm writing something where the content isn't [i]interesting[/i] to me; that's honestly not something [i]I[/i] ever really do, which explains why I've actually not joined any role-plays here at this point and will remain unlikely to do so unless I actually decide to GM one of the handful of ideas bouncing around in my head currently. Too many role-players are whimsical in the sense that they jump haphazardly into a role-play on the spur of a moment and then ruin it for everyone else when they get over the "phase"; this is actually the first personality trait I look for in a role-player when I consider denying them acceptance into one of my role-plays. I'll also second the notions being given about not having a problem with editing posts, since absolutely [i]all[/i] of the writing drafts I currently do for my main story project are (despite what some of my associates believe) only drafts and not actually the complete versions. I'm always revising things because my passion for my writing demands that I be a perfectionist. Overall, I think genuinely being passionate about a concept is what motivates me to write, and the only thing stopping me from writing countless pages of my project daily right now is the literal thousands of notepads and documents of unsorted and potentially lost notes that I need to recover and organize; [i]that[/i] tedium is what ruins my morale to write, nothing about the art of writing [i]itself[/i]. There's really no other advice I can offer beyond these observations, since I don't suffer from this problem (beyond outside factors besides writing itself getting in the way, as I've just mentioned). Inspiration is a natural thing for me that flows within me at all times, and frankly if anything my problem is that I get too much inspiration and too many ideas rather than not enough, so I don't relate to this at all. I've seen many people who were once highly invested in stories and planning to write novels fall into writer's block and just give up, seemingly without any good reason a lot of the time (even after they explain the whole reason to me), so it's a shame when people let creativity and passion die and the soul loses its power of expression.