Someone (else… not me of course*): Creative part of brain, it is time to do a blog post.

CPoB: …..

Someone: Look, it’s been a while, and we need to post!

CPoB: *yawn*

Someone: I need you to focus here!

CPoB: Neener neener!

Someone: *sigh*

Enter the magical world of the internet. As well as being an endless treasure chest of procrastination, there are various resources to kick start a writer’s brain. Strictly in the interest of science, over the next several posts (perhaps more) I will be checking some of these out**.

I’ve been down this road before; in fact one of my NaNoWriMo books consisted of me picking a prompt every few days and adding it to my story. It started with a random character cooking a squirrel in his neighbor’s fireplace and ended with that same neighbor finding a jewelry box in a snowbank. I have a hard time deciding what was more fun: writing by the seat of my pants or the looks on others’ faces when they asked what my novel was about and I tried to explain. The story did end up making the bare minimal of sense, and turned out to be one of my more fun novel writing months.

And now I’m off to research these sites and plan future posts watch funny videos on Youtube. For science.

*I doth protest too much.

**No, I’m not being paid by these sites. I wish.