Because all NaNo-crazy writers deserve a moment or two of relaxation. (…She wrote while listening to Carmina Burana. O Fortuna! It’s like someone is going to do something ominous in here while the little brush is going swirly swirly.)
if you follow the paintbrush with your eyes while not moving your head, it forces you to use emdr which is a therapeutic technique to calm anxiety/panic. watching fish swim causes the same effect.
And I imagine doing Asian brush calligraphy or playing with a mini Zen garden would be similar. Hmmm.
(Source: seutae)
Some writing prompt generators
Serendipity (names, places, mapbuilding, etc.)
Quick Story Idea
Full Story Idea
Writing Challenges
General Character
Quick Character
really just all of Seventh Sanctum
RPGesque generators
Writing Prompts
Inspiration Finder
Story Arc
Fantasy Story Situaton
Adventure
Chaotic Shiny is just really good in general
Random Plot
Usefuls. フレ〜！(I started to type “fureeeee!” but that just doesn’t look right.)
More random titles
Time for the abstract art title generator again! Amusing selections:
Reappearance of Rising Absence (incomprehensible drivel FTW!)
Reappearance of Bathing Face (BOO!)
The Interfering Muse (the perfect writing blog name)
Absence of Childhood Decomposed (sounds kind of gruesome)
Study for Tight Vision (directions for improving your eyesight?)
Landscape with Drunk Improvement (“drunk improvement” is such a useful phrase I might have to keep that one in my vocabulary…)
My number one NaNoWriMo tool
The NaNoWriMo report card spreadsheet. This is the one tool I use consistently every year. I loves me some statistics and progress tracking. In fact, I think this spreadsheet has inspired the format of some of my personal Excel spreadsheets…
