Getting and STAYING motivated to write? Exercises?

That happens to me occasionally. I just have to be in the right mode to write. I haven't even to begun how many times I opened word (including now) and just left the screen blank before shutting down my computer hours later. I have no great advice to share with you, as I have none for myself. You just have to really feel for your writing. It helps me a lot when I can actually visualize a scene before writing it. Sometimes you just have to start a new story that sparks your interest and come back to the other one another time. Maybe the story just isn't you anymore, know what I mean? I have a writing kit and I pull a popsicle stick with an idea on it and I have five minutes to write as much as possible on that topic. That might work for you. Using your story and just trying to force yourself to write off of it. Or just read your stories over and over and over again. Sometimes music gives me the motivation...actually most of the time :P I find when listening to music I'm one with my story so I can focus and block out everything else and be able to write a couple of paragraphs or pages or whatever. I wish you the best of luck that you pick up on your stories again and sometime soon at that!!! Hope I helped some, even if just a little bit :)