Man, I totally forgot about this blog...oops. Anywho, it is the month of November which means one thing, NO SHAVE NOVEMBER! Just kidding, it's NaNoWriMo. What is that you ask? Well NaNoWriMo stands for National Novel Writing Month and is the thirty one days in November when crazy peopl, such as myself, write 1,667 words a day in order to reach the goal of 50,000 words by the end of the month. Now, this is no magnum opus by any means, it's pretty much slapping ideas on the page until you reach 50,000 words at the end of the month. Though they are cohesive ideas their is always the chance of plot holes and continuity errors. But the accomplishment of writing so much gives hope to being able to write on a normal basis outside of November since you supposedly wrote around 2,000 words a day which is quite an accomplishment.
To become a better writer you need to write and write and write some more and of course reading doesn't hurt either! It's hard and there will be days when you think to yourself, I can't, and you just stare at the screen or the blank journal page with nothing. And do you stop there. Nope. Even if it is the most ridiculous thing that comes to your mind, write about it. It's good for you, build character!
So to combat some of that writer's block there are always writing prompts! For example:
1. Describe a single object in great detail so that anyone can picture every detail of it without having ever seen it.
2. Magazines have tons of random pictures so pick one and give it a back story, who, what, when where, why, and how.
3. Rewrite a fairy tale so that it doesn't end how it was supposed to, no more happily ever after! Mwahahaha!
4. Create the perfect evil villain.
5. Describe the new fairytale hero.
6. Start your story with "And that's how I died"
There are many websites out there that have pretty awesome prompts as well, just use the always handy Google and the world of writing prompts will open up!
May the odds be ever in your favor!
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