12 Ways to Kick-Start Your Novel

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We are writers. You’re a writer. I’m a writer.

And writers write. No matter what, we write. No matter if the world seems like it is going crazy or if we’re going nuts within, our job is to write. To pour it all out on the page. To be chroniclers and bear witness.

And yet.

Sometimes this writing, this flinging words at the page, is beyond us. And no matter how hard we want to do it, we just don’t seem to be able to. The words won’t come. We can’t drag ourselves to the page. We sit at the computer and stare off into space.

But here’s the conundrum: when you’re a writer, the only thing that makes you feel better — the only thing that makes you feel like yourself again — is to write. So when you’re not writing, you feel even worse. Oh, it’s a vicious, mean cycle, I tell you. And the only way out is to get started writing again.

So, herewith, I present you with 12 ideas to kick-start your writing. The only thing you have to do is experiment with them and see which one works for you. Promise me you’ll do that next time you’re…