: Re: Wrote myself into a paradox and now demotivated - how to resolve? I'm a casual writer at best and tend to write in fits and starts when motivation hits. I tend to lack resolve and this leads

@Bryan361

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To Fix The Motivation Issue...

Watch your self-talk. The original version of your question (before Aric Fowler's edits) spent several sentences describing yourself as an amateur, sporadic writer with motivation and discipline problems. Such a self image can't help your writing productivity.

Write in a non-linear sequence. When you get stuck on a scene as you have with this paradox, jump to some other point in the story and get back to writing. Stories can always be rearranged during their edit phase. You don't have to write them in the order that they will eventually be read.

Find your muse! Writing is horribly hard but wonderfully fun. When you truly love what you are writing, no discipline is needed. When you are just following the standards of your chosen genre (magic school in this case), then writing can become a chore and the fun can evaporate. Ignore the expectations of your chosen setting or audience. Follow the story line which is revealed by your joy in writing it. Revel in the joy of creating without concern for the finished product. You can always work out the glitches during the edit and rewrite phases.

Keep Writing!

The following did not help the original question poster, but might be of value to other authors writing in a fey universe.

To Fix The Paradox...

If your characters live in a fey-fantasy world, why are they celebrating Christmas? Wouldn't the major winter celebration be the Solstice? Taking that further, if they are living in a world where the fey are real and visible, would they necessarily take the Solstice off from school? Might they not instead use the timing of the Solstice as an opportunity to study the fey during such a holy night. They could then take a break from school work (unrelated to any holiday or celebration) during the dead of winter, when it is too cold to get any work done anyway. The distances between the celebration and the break are completely under your control as they are unrelated to customs in our world. Paradox solved.

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