Hey writers, and welcome back to our brief month long stand on NanoVimo, which if you missed our last video about it, is National Narva writing month. And basically what it is is throughout the entire month of November, people are encouraged to walk away their inner editor and just focus on writing for the entire month, and then come back to it later and kind of figure out what they want to edit in. But sometime when you're in the middle of writing, the idea don't just come straight to you, right? Sometimes you can reach a moment in the story where you feel stuck and you're not really sure where to go. I know I've certainly experienced that a lot in my own writing. But what do you do? A lot of times we'll call this writers block, and you know, first of all it's important that you're not alone. Everybody experiences this from people who have just started writing to established authors who've written several books. But what do you do about it? How do you ever come in? I feel like the instinct is to just sort of sit back and, you know, whenever your creativity feels it's even aided again, you'll come back and be refreshed and ready to go. But I think it's important to at least to some extent stay in motion and keep your creative juices flowing because you don't want to sort of get stuck in that period of stagnation just dwelling on why you can't be moving forward and just constantly start early thinking things. Which I know at the bottom that I have a lot of time and I'm kind of getting stuck in those writers block periods. So what I've done is I've compiled a brief list of some options to try out either in the video description below or in the article below this video. And essentially what they are is just some things that you can try to shake some ideas loose. You know, they range anywhere from taking a brief walk and kind of getting your mind off the straight for a little bit and then returning with fresh eyes and, you know, seeing if that changes the perspective a little bit or, you know, taking in some new material, getting some inspiration, writing something else that doesn't relate to your big project at all and just kind of getting rid of that pressure of perfection looking over your shoulder. Or, and maybe my most favorite, taking that moment that you're stuck at and writing the worst possible version of the story from that moment. Of course you want to save that in a new file as you won't necessarily want to attach that to what you're working on, but it can be fun to just, if you kind of feel frustrated to just take out all your frustrations by taking your story in the worst possible direction and seeing what happens. If nothing else, sometimes that idea turned into good ideas later and then if a solid trash, then you know what direction to abort in the future. Well, that's pretty much all I have this time around because we're still focusing on national novel writing month, but I just kind of wanted to stop by and give you a few ideas for those who maybe couldn't kind of stuck at this halfway point because I know for me, you know, there are a lot of times when I've been writing and I kind of get stuck on that writer's block mode and it can be difficult to overcome, but don't worry, you're not alone, several people have experienced it and you will overcome it and you will write an amazing story, I believe in you. So with that, stay safe, stay healthy and I'll see you in the next one. Bye.