The Importance of Projects Without Pressure

Participating in NaNoWriMo this year taught me the importance of having writing projects without “pressure”. By pressure I mean: the intent to publish. I knew going in that I I had no intention of publishing my NaNoWriMo story. This immediately put me in a better mood to write. As I’ve mentioned my particularly nasty writer’s block before, I won’t go too far into detail with it here. The fact was, however, one good project without publishing pressure was enough to get me out of my writer’s bl...