https://thecreativeindependent.com/people/writer-amanda-petrusich-on-showing-up-with-genuine-curiosity/

What else helps the “getting started” process? I’m going to say this at the risk of making a lot of writers want to punch me in the face, but I just love writing. That part of it has never felt as much like a struggle. There are other parts of this job that are hard, but writing is the best part of my day. When I don’t do it, I feel discombobulated, sad, mentally and emotionally disorganized. Writing is a sense-making process for me. I don’t know what I think about anything until I start to write it down. There are moments where there’s just no gas in the tank. Where you’re sick of yourself, the thing you’re writing about, or the job. Begin anywhere. You don’t have to start at the beginning. You don’t have to write in a legible, coherent, chronological way. I rarely do. I free myself of the idea that I have to write my first sentence first. I never, ever do that. I also don’t write my last sentence last. It’s very disorganized until the end where it’s all sort of put together. I love the work of chiseling a line. I’m a line nerd, I get a particular rhythm in my head for how I want a sentence to be balanced and what I want it to communicate. I love that work of cracking away until it has the topography and shape I want. I find it more fun and satisfying than anything else in the world.