- buy a pencil and paper. Get a writing program and a keyboard.
- spill all your ideas into a notebook that will never see the light of day. Write down literally every idea you have that even sort of relates to the scene/cpapter/book that you want to write until your thoughts converge on a pointed attack.
- quality vs quantity? No competition. Quality all the way. the more you write, the better you will know your story. Worry about quality LATEr.
- think about where the idea came from. Go there. Set up a cardboard box and live there. This is your home now.
- what is the coolest most self-indulgent thing you can think of? That's what you wnat to write at this point, until you get some steam.
- short term goals, my friends. And by short term, i mean minute from now, ten seconds from now. What are you going to write right now? Stop thinking about an hour from now, stop thinking a day from now.
- this is not a book. This is not a book. You are writing a story. A story is easier to take bites out of than a book. A book is a big, scary, collosaal thing. Stories are fun and carefree.
- get yourself a writing friend. A cactus, an old bottle of nail polish, a fish in an appropriate sized tank etc. Make them hold you accountable.
- set crazy low goals. Promise yourself you will write ten words today. Ten words and you will be the bets writer in the entire world to ever exist. Accomplishing things is a morale booster and will urge you to write more.
- just keep writing. I believe in you.
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