Update: NaNoWriMo Warmup Challenge - 09/10

[wordwhacker]

Goal: 25,000
Words Written: 1,857
Percentage of goal: 7.4%
Percentage of month past: 33.3%

Catching up, slowly but surely. I will wake up and do some writing before work today. Mark my typed words.

Comments

[diamondfemme.livejournal.com]

I've also had luck with the 'headphones tied to computer' trick, also it is less successful with a laptop than a desktop.

Unfortunately, I'm so overly anal about some things, that I do all these extensive outlines and family trees and stuff (it's a sickness, I tell you, a sickness!) and sometimes I never refer to them again. But I guess the physical act of creating them perma-prsses the info on my brain?

Best cure I've found for writer's block: long hot shower and exfoliation with the yummy smelling vanilla-sugar-and-orange-oil-magical-overpriced-product. For some reason, an odd combination of factors (being naked, in a hot steamy room, and covering my skin with stickily sweet sugar scrub) makes have glorious epiphanies and I'm usually in a mad dash to rinse the remaining sugar scrub off my skin, grab a robe and a towel to turban my hair in, and run for the desk/computer before I forget. Go ahead, laugh. It's a humerous image.

[cassaclyzm.livejournal.com]

Humerous, yes. But it's also just about the *perfect* example as to why I am hopelessly in love with ever-so-slightly geeky femmes. ;-)

I should try using scent as a means for breaking down writer's block, though - maybe if I light some incense (as long as it's not a food or berry smell - that'll just make me hungry) it'll help me get/stay in the mood to write. Something to try, anyway.

It is a good example, isn't it?

[diamondfemme.livejournal.com]

Yes, but it does lead to dilemmmas: Finish exfoliating/rinsing shampoo from hair or write brilliant chapter?

They say that olfactory is the strongest form of memory, perhaps there would be something to using it to work through writer's block?

I'm a little embarassed to mention my other anti-writer's block technique, but hell, I'll confess up to it. *blushing* Believe it or not, I've found that writing really bad, cheesie, cliched Harry Potter fanfic (particularly slash) is an amazing tonic. But the shower method is ever so much more enjoyable. . .