Writer’s Block: 5 Ways to Help Yourself Over the Hump!
Every year, we’re lucky to have great sponsors for our nonprofit events. World Anvil, a 2022 NaNoWriMo sponsor, helps you develop and organize your characters, plot, and world setting. Today, World Anvil founder Janet Forbes is here to share some pro tips for world-building. Don’t forget to check out the offer to NaNoWriMo writers for 40% off a World Anvil membership!
Writer’s Block can hit anyone—but particularly when you’re writing a novel under time pressure (like during NaNoWriMo) it can be really tough!
But you CAN get yourself over the hump! These 5 tips will get you out of writer’s block, and on with your novel writing—because just like NaNoWriMo, at World Anvil we believe the world needs your story, and we want to help you tell it! <3
1. Explore your world-building
If you’re the kind of person that has a detailed world bible, sometimes just reading through it is enough to spark your inspiration. If you’ve created a world meta, you’ll already have an idea of current affairs and events in your world. Bringing in a plot thread from those is a great way to get things moving again if your character feels stuck. It can help introduce secondary conflicts which don’t revolve around the main character, making them feel less like the centre of the universe (Mary Sue, anyone?)! The magic sentence to ask yourself is, “If this, then what?”:
