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How to overcome it? One method is to write your own name over and over again.

Thinker’s Block, on the other hand, is a huge problem. Reading the biographies of different kinds of people can help you come up with all kinds of situations that your characters might face. You can practice Bibliomancy by flipping through another novel, a magazine, a catalog or by using the Random function on Wikipedia. You could also choose to do 200 words at a pop, or any other number, so long as you avoid the overwhelm of writing them all at once.īibliomancy is a kind of literary sorcery that helps any time you’re stuck for that next idea. When writing, you can simply decide to finish 500 words at a time, rather than working towards all 2000, or some undefined number. Here are some practical tips you can use to get your own 2k on paper or on your computer screen every day. But, had I not produced the clouds that would eventually drift away, there would have been far fewer bricks in the tower of my story that remained. The first time I wrote a November Novel, I wound up throwing half of the writing away. This is true even if the words you write to get to 2k per day amount to very little in terms of quality. The more you put time into the writing, the more material you have to reshape when it comes time to wrestling that second draft. In essence, the more you write about your story, the more you find out about it.

It also helps build your creative stamina. Just as we know there are rhythms for eating and rituals for sleeping, keeping pace with your writing by reaching a particular word count every day is extremely useful for deepening what you are writing in terms of plot, character, and symbolism. In the words of … well, me: it’s all about rhythm, baby. Whether your write 1650 or 2000, this question remains: why is having a fixed daily goal important? Stephen King gives that number too, but I heard it from Bradbury first (or read it, as the case happens to be). This is probably because it’s the number Ray Bradbury gave in one of his books on writing. It’s now well over halfway through National Novel Writing Month, but not too late to talk writing strategy.Īlthough participants in the National Novel Writing month have to produce only 1650 words a day, that’s never been enough for me.