Go to a place that you know attracts people with different interests than you and see if you can make a new friend. Find an activity you’re curious about that’s different from anything else you do and give it a try. Join a club, a meetup group, or a casual sports team. Learn a new skill and bring new people into your life. See what inspiration is hiding in the world adjacent to you. Instead of walking, running, or riding your bike wherever you usually go, head to the next town over and investigate a neighborhood you’re not familiar with. Always go to the same gas station? Try a different one. On the way home from the gym, your job, your kids’ school, any place you visit more than once a week, try a new route. Try art forms and genres you don’t expect to like and see what happens!Įxplore your world. Go to a movie you wouldn’t normally be interested in. Go see an art exhibit, a dance performance, or a concert. You already know how important it is for writers to read-and not just the genre or age category you write, but all kinds of books, articles, and other content. So this year, if you’re feeling creatively fried, emotionally exhausted, distracted by the election, or just plain burnt out, try spending November replenishing yourself artistically.Ĭonsume culture. And while NaNoWriMo and Tara’s own PiBoIdMo are fantastic ways to light a fire under your butt and get words on the page, it’s just as important for writers to spend time…well, not writing. Writing a novel in a month is even harder. In fact, we even created a Twitter account for it and spent the month of November that year tweeting about all the things we were doing instead of writing a novel. A few years ago, my friend and I joked that there should be a National Don’t Write a Novel Month.
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