In my experience, there is only one motivation, and that is desire. No reasons or principle contain it or stand against it.
Jane SmileyI was depressed, but that was a side issue. This was more like closing up shop, or, say, having a big garage sale, where you look at everything you've bought in your life, and you remember how much it meant to you, and now you just tag it for a quarter and watch 'em carry it off, and you don't care. That's more like how it was.
Jane SmileyBecause your goal is a complete rough draft of a novel, and every rough draft, by being complete, is perfect.
Jane Smiley