How to shift your writer’s block using free writing software
Trawling through my RSS reader late last night, I came across a note about NaNoWriMo, the annual National Novel Writing Month, which starts today and runs until the end of the month and aims to push reluctant writers into the deepest of ends, into writing an entire novel.
It’s a simple, but effective idea. Your NaNoWriMo mission is to knock out 50,000 words in 30 days. So set your daily and weekly word counts. Work out when to write. And you write. Anything. The trick to reaching such a high target in such a short time is not to worry about your precious words, plot, characterisations, whatever you’ve been taught in writing school. What’s important is to keep tapping on the keyboard. A month later, you’ve accumulated a huge mound of, ah, material. Maybe it’s not all bad. Yes, here and there: the basis for something better next time.
First, sharpen your pencil
