Turn off the internet.
Start writing a letter to yourself about the book you want to write.
Take a book off your shelf and start typing in the first page of that book.
Go back to the page you wrote before and edit it.
Go back and reread what you wrote the day before.
Set a timer and force yourself to sit in your chair (with no internet) until it goes off. If you have to sit long enough in boredom, you may find yourself suddenly able to write.
Draw what you think will happen next.
Talk—out loud—to your characters and complain to them about the blank page.
Find a photo on line of a character or landscape for your book and simply describe the photo.
Write what wouldn’t happen next in your book.
Write a line your character would NEVER say.
Type the phonebook.
Write about the sound of silence.
Reread a book or watch a movie that you hate. You may find you suddenly have something to say.
Starve yourself of books or movies, any source story. You may find you NEED to write to fuel the part of you that can’t get story any other way than through yourself.
Write a list of questions that you have for your book.
Published on October 08, 2014 08:15