How to not get bored with my own story

Title is self-explanitory. I get simply depressed when it comes to writing my novel, I want to work on other projects but can't. I need to get through this, but am so bored by it. Help!

Wow! I don't think I've ever gotten on a thread this soon after it was created (3 minutes ago). Okay, back to the subject:

Maybe you should put this story on the backburner for a bit. Go ahead and work on another project for a bit, then get back to the other one. I've had this happen to me before, and it works for me. I realize that it might not work for you, but honestly, that's all I've got.

First off, what is it about your story that's boring you? Because chances are good that if YOU are finding the story (or part of the story) boring, then your readers will too. Try to figure out WHY you are bored, and then change it.

I would suggest not just leaving it. That can work for some people (as Angryman said, it has worked for him), but you risk never going back to it, or leaving it for so long that by the time you get back to it, your writing style has changed, or you don't remember all the important details. Think about any other personal projects that you got bored with and took a break from: did you go back and finish them eventually, or did they just sit there? If you do decide to work on something else for a bit, set a date for yourself to go back and work on your story again (no more than a month or two is probably best).

You could also try fleshing out "background" elements of your story, if you're someone who the enjoys process of world building and character creation. Go research something related to your story, or read a novel or watch a movie/TV show/play that is similar to your novel in some way (same genre, same country, something). Whenever I lose motivation for a few days, I pop in a movie or TV show of the same genre, and by the end, I'm usually itching to get back to my story. Lord of the Rings (or some of the many, many extras about the art department) is usually just the kick I need to get back working on my fantasy novel.

Why do you need to write this one? I think that's your problem, forcing yourself to do it. Writing should be fun, if you're not having fun, then the readers probably won't have fun either. Make sure you are writing something you like and aare passionate about or there's no point. I have to dissagree with E.Davis.Brown I'm afraid. Personally at least, I find that leaving something for a bit helps quite a lot, and there's nothing wrong with your writing style changing because when it does change, it generally improves, then you can rewrite the whole thing if you wanted to and it might be better for it. That might just be me though, and my record of completed stories is not exactly very high, but at least I'm having fun doing it.

If you feel it absolutely necessary to finish it but you don't really want to, I say have fun with it. Mix it up. Try some dares. Introduce a new character, or kill one off. Send all your main people on a cupcake run to the next town. Get them drunk and see what happens. It might not make for the greatest ending but I guarantee you will not be bored.

NNNNNIIIIIIINNNNNNJJJJJJJAAAAAAASSSSSSS! In all their various forms and incarnations. :)

(That says Ninjas, in case you can't read it).

In my experience, any text longer than your average short story becomes boring to the writer at some point. Simply because you've had too much of it, thinking of the plot or the characters when you're not writing, for weeks in a row...
So, I don't know what others feel like, but I get bored with my novels. I always do. From his pep-talk, it appears that Neil Gaiman does, too.
And then I have to go against the urge to put the text down and forget about it. If you ask me, inspiration is overrated.

So, really, it's fine if you're bored. Just grab your novel by the shoulders, look it in the eye and don't let it go. When you're done with that first draft and you've let it sit for a month or so, then, you'll pick it up again and find out that it's not boring at all, from a reader's perspective.

In a nutshell: keep writing.

If you have other projects, you can also switch between them. I sometimes do.

I guess the purpose of adding ninjas is actually to add something crazy, stupid, something you might think of being horrible at first glance but turns out to be an awesomely good idea.

When I planned my novel for November, I mostly used crazy ideas. I ended up with a typical supporting character as the main character, a trickster as the guy who holds the group together, an ice-cold female bounty hunter with an unisex name and a believed-to-be-dead assassin who happens to be cursed to turn into a swan at the full moon. (Initially, the assassin wereswan was a combination from the adoption agency: 'a kid who follows the main character around that hides whenever the mc turns to look' + 'assassins trying to attack the mc all the time but fail' + a thread from the poll section about werewolves.)
Going with a combination of crazy might work out. Or maybe not. I don't know what you're writing or if it's all planned out, but you might want to change your course at some point and do something you like to write rather than forcing yourself to follow the proper but boring way of approaching things.

I am going through the same problem, I have 3 stories I am working on. Well...4 if you count the one that I am literally making up as I go along. I actually write out my stories before I bother putting them on the computer, and for some reason I would manage to get about 1 1/2 pages written (front and back) then I would get bored. I would put it down and walk away for like a week, then go back and write a bit more...but my issue is of how quickly I get bored with my stories.

Apparently I can come up with awesome story ideas, but the writing for some reason always manages to stop me.