This is why I've enjoyed my time taking improv classes. I'm with a group of other complete beginners and failure is encouraged. It has a beginning and end, and whatever happens will only happen once ever. I go home with a sense of completion and accomplishment, but I don't have the feeling of having to show anyone else for validation.

Jim Butcher tells the story, in various interviews, how he started the wildly successful Dresden Files series with trying to write terrible formulaic genre fiction to prove to his teacher that it would be terrible, and ended up with something marketable.

Example interview: https://clarionfoundation.wordpress.com/2011/07/26/interview...

(search for "Writing the Genre Fiction Novel")

That's how I used to get over writers block. I just start off with deliberately writing crap.

I don't think it'll actually help, but I don't think it'd hurt, either. Thanks for that; I'll give it a whirl.

The problem, though, is that I often lack the motivation to do even little things. Sounds like that's the case for folks with depression, too.