Do you write?

When I was younger I used to do a lot of writing. I loved it. I wrote short stories and poems and all sorts of nonsense.
I was young, and have thrown a lot of it away now because it was not anywhere near as good as I had remembered. Some of it I’m still proud of but it was mainly just the ramblings of a very depressed teenager. However I’m actually a little envious of younger me. I LOVED writing. I did it all the time! My imagination was overflowing with ideas, and I wrote things for myself, my friends, and on writing websites.
Now, I haven’t written fiction in years. I stopped writing when I started university in 2011 and haven’t written a thing since and I miss it. I always feel so inspired by the books I read and I always think “I wish I could write like that” but I let life and other things get in the way.

I feel I would like to start writing again, that I would like to be creative again and find some sort of outlet for my ideas again now that I am no longer working in a creative industry (and am job hunting!)

I think starting this blog, for me, has been a little way to start easing my way back into writing after my Instagram started becoming an outlet for joy and creativity for me and reminded me how much I missed it!

I’ve always seen that the best way to start writing is just to write. But sometimes it feels intimidating.

How do you motivate yourself?
Do you have any tips and tricks?
Do you use daily promts?
What inspires you?

Please let me know!