Writing is often seen as an ardourous task I have to write quite a bit for my work and research and frankly I don't care to do it. I feel that I am much happier when I can actually make or fix something.... the statisfaction is higher there and I think I get whatever satisfaction bio-chemicals out of accomplishment. My issue is that with writing that satisfaction is often too far between projects. In any case I could use some motivation for writing and heres a decent article with some tips: http://www.52projects.com/52_projects/2006/05/simple_things_y.html