Personally, as much as i tried to convince myself otherwise, i never liked english. I wouldn't go so far saying hating it, but the infinite ways to approach the same thing always confuzzled me, and the physical pain of writing compounded my dislike of the subject, as well as the fact i went on a rollercoaster with my marks on practice essays especially throughout the year.
But the things is, and the biggest motivation for english if your not truly passionate should be that its by far and away the single most important subject for your VCE. First of all it has to be top 4, and secondly because it doesnt scale significantly generally each raw study score extra is worth far more than in other subjects of your top 4.
For me the word i used was never 'excited' but 'motivated'