There are many factors that contribute to such things xP

I've faced this issue before and found myself 2 quite reliable ways of keeping the motivation up and going against my "flash in the pan" way of doing things.

1. First off make sure to keep all the most enticing ideas stored on some medium. Be it a sticky note or something you will carry to your desk when writing time comes. (that is if you're not doing it already) Details matter and the more you see you've made effort to prepare for writing/drawing/etcetera, the more possible it is you will start it. From there, it will go somehow itself. ;)

2. Second method would be making some promisses. It's up to you whether you make them towards someone else, or a promise to yourself. But it makes you feel compelled to do it. For a guy like me who likes to bedependable and true to his word, it's much easier to find resolve when I know I promissed to do something. Be it a friend who would love the contents of the story. You can slip a word out. It's better to write when thinking of some specific person as the receiver of your work. ^^

Otherwise, play some tune that would be most suitable for story plot... Look for some "inspirating" images, on FA or wherever.

I tend to not write down much by way of ideas or details just because all the ideas tend to stick quite well in my head; it's incredibly rare for me to forget one. But I could always try, just to get myself thinking of the details, which then might lead to proper writing...

I dunno about promising things to anyone though, might be too much pressure x)

Well, that's why I suggested making promises to yourself first. ^^ Like auto-suggestion: "I must write this." Repeated a few times in your head will help. ;) Otherwise, think of occasions too! Birthdays, some calendar-events. Like christmas. It's exciting to draw or write something connected to a certain theme! That might help too.

That sums up my feelings as well. I can make myself write for commissions, but when I want to do personal stories, all that energy and drive just... Vanishes. I've got an entire series of stories I want to write but no drive to do it. Let me know if you find an answer.

I suppose x)

I wish I knew the answer to that question as I suffer from that same "fog", I have more ideas than what I know to do with them but when it comes to doing even one...motivation just goes bleh.

Yeah... It's like trying to put words down just makes all initiative vanish. I don't know...

The flippant answer would be to keep the dragon in chastity until he produces a story, but I'm fairly certain that's not the type of suggestion you're looking for.

I've been hunting my own muse down a little recently (I've got a scene rattling around in my head, but just haven't gotten it onto disk), so I can empathize with how you're feeling.

If you find you can't dialog written, perhaps take a half-step back and write down your plot points (ie: Hueroc lands in his cave with a fresh killed deer, Elora and the hatchlings feed, Hueroc goes to shower under a waterfall while Elora tucks the hatchlings into bed, Elora pounces Hueroc in the waterfall). From there, the plot points can be refined into more and more details.

You gotta be careful making such 'recommendations,' there's a chance they'll be taken seriously or have been tried already :P

In most cases I know what all the plot points are, I just can't get my brain turning when I try to get them moving into the proper story.

Well, every good writer pass though this sometime xD!

I advice you simply to relax and wait the ideas come out x3. I know that you have ideas of what to write, but you don't have sure about HOW to write. And it's so frustrating when you sit in front of the computer, thinking on a way to write something and you just can't. You take minutes and minutes (some times hours) to try to think on something of how to write that and this is more exausted tham write itself >w<! So don't worry about that and wait the ideas come naturally x3!

I know that you want to write something for your watchers (and I also want to read a new bondage story from you soon >w<), but we understand your situation and we will wait anxiously for your next work ^w^!

*hugs you tight and give to you a blindfold* x3

I don't like waiting though... I want to write them, so I can write more! *pouts*

Now you know why my commissions take forever for me to finish >< All the ideas and motivation and pumping while everywhere else, but as soon as I sit my butt on my PC to work.... boom, can't focus, motivation gone, it's super frustrating.

My own advice is sometimes the best medicine is to muscle through it. Even if you don't want to do it, just try to and see if you can get some paragraphs in. it helped me bring my motivation back that way

I try that occasionally, but it just feels like... bad. I can try again, it just rarely goes well x)

I totally understand x)

Had that too. But "muscling trough" usually makes me write without sense and passion and it comes out as crap. :/ Crap that I would not likely show to bigger audience. And I like to please my watchers and followers of my artsy submissions. ^^;

Yeah trust me I understand, snd you and hueroc are right! Nothing you muscle through will prolly come out good, BUT it's a good exercise simply to get your creative mojo running again :) At least for me it has worked in the past.... doodle something dumb, muscle it out, suddenly feel like arting again for a bit x)

Funnily enough, usually the best thing to do in these situations is to.... take a break.

I mean take an honest, complete break, don't even bother seriously thinking about continuing for a while. How long depends entirely on you. Maybe a week will be enough, maybe it will be over a month. Chances are, you'll know when you're over your dry spell.

I don't want to take a break though... so many ideas! D:

I'd say jot down the ideas then and take a break anyways. It's surprising how effective just taking your mind off something can be.

I've been in a slump lately myself. Paying jobs have taken over my time so my personal projects have been few and far between... I mean I love what I do. There are very few who can make a living doing something -not- 9-5 working with their hands. But bills and paying customers come first. So I've noticed my workspeed has been slowing. Items which should take 3 days not shipping till the 5th.

So last night I went out into the garage, at 1am, cigar in "hoof" and just stared at the project I can finally afford thanks to my work. A Datsun Z car. Sat there a good hour or two late at night, just, doing what most gearheads do. Talk to it, tell it of my plans, inspect things I've not gotten to touch in near a month, re-affirm why I am doing all the extra work I've piled up.

Point is, sometimes you just need to take a break, find the thing that drives you [no pun intended], and spend a bit of time re-acquainting yourself with it.

The job is one factor. I work 9-5 and that draws much of my brainpower during the week, so that once I get home I just want to rest... and then on weekends I just want to catch up and sleep and laziness and stuff, so it can be hard to apply myself to hobbies in general, let alone writing >.>

As for reacquainting myself with tied-up dragons... hrm. x3

Once you get started a tip for if you don't finish it in one sitting is to never end with a complete sentence or paragraph that way it never feels like you are starting from scratch.

I almost always write entire stories in a single day/session, only rarely do I find myself in the situation of having to resume something x)

i'm the same way when it comes to drawing things. i see it perfectly clear in my head, but the image on paper looks horrid compared. join the crowd, my fellow muse-challenged(is that even the right term?).

That's not really what I mean... I can't get the words on the page at all, good or bad!

ah, looks like it's time for a muse quest then. XD

in all seriousness, this will pass and you will probably feel like writing a full-length novel when over. don't worry,it will all be over before you know it.

When I have trouble writing, or even feeling like writing, I just sit down and do something that has absolutely no significance at all. usually, it's just utter nonsense and I delete it after but it does help get me in the mood to get something done.

It seems like what it takes mainly is time x)

I have felt the same way for quite a while...I mean, look how long it took me to type out this reply! o.o

Even the journal was hard to write! But I might have turned a corner over the weekend. x)