| Can you think of one instance whereby you're | | | | knowing what to write. I participate in something |
| just staring at the keyboard and willing yourself to | | | | called the National Novel Writing Month... in short, |
| type something... ANYTHING out?! You're just | | | | it's affectionately called Nanowrimo. It's an |
| staring at it and wishing that there was something | | | | incredible process! |
| you could do about that empty page on the | | | | The purpose is to force yourself to write a novel |
| computer? | | | | (or a really long short story - haha) of at least |
| I know. The feeling is horrible. | | | | 50,000 words within that month. The reward... |
| However, here's a secret to writing even when | | | | nothing. Yeah, you don't anything from completing |
| you're stuck. Just write, anyway. Anything that | | | | the process but you know what? That's not true. |
| comes to mind. Just think about a recent movie | | | | At the end of the month, when you've finally |
| you've seen, the cup of coffee in front of you, | | | | succeeded in writing those 50,000 words, you've |
| your favorite actress, a man standing at the altar | | | | got half a novel finished and a story. |
| being abandoned by his bride-not-to-be, etc. The | | | | Sometimes the story is good, sometimes they're |
| obstacle is you. You can't get started because | | | | unpublishable - but you've got some material to |
| you're facing something writers are most afraid | | | | work with now, don't you? |
| of... writer's block! Oh, how I hate that word too! | | | | So, the essence of what I am trying to say |
| Over the years of being able to write despite | | | | today is this. Even if you're stuck there staring at |
| facing devastating and career-destroying mind | | | | your keyboard, write anyway. Write about how |
| blocks, I'll share something with you and that is to | | | | you hate your hand lotion, how much laundry you |
| get yourself chugging anyway. | | | | have to do, write about world war II... just keep |
| You know, November is my favorite month of | | | | at it until the engine chugs to life. |
| the year because that's the month whereby I | | | | Good luck! |
| have to force myself to write despite not | | | | |