@Jewdanksdad's comment on ':marseylongpost: /r/writing: "Writing a novel in thirty days but I'm totally blank on day 3." :marseybrainlet:'

https://old.reddit.com/r/writing/comments/16tl2ci/writing_a_novel_in_thirty_days_but_im_totally

A 50000 words manuscript amounts to around 1667 words per day for 30 days and so I set that amount as my per day word target. I jumped into writing the novel without much of an idea about the story.

What could go wrong? :marseyclueless:

I started writing a coming of age story about a guy just starting his second last year of high school. I wrote the first chapter day before yesterday and the second one yesterday. The words flowed out pretty well and easy leading to me meeting the word count target easily both days. But the problem is that I'm genuinely stumped about what to do next. I have thought for a lot of time but genuinely can't come up with anything good.

[long boring summary of generic high school scenario about a kid and his crush with absolutely no hook whatsoever]

How can I get over this writing block thing quickly?

I want to go a little easy because this is probably a kid, but if you're bored of your story by day 3, write a different story. You cannot write a coming of age story if you have nothing to say about coming of age, and you cannot write a novel if you don't have ideas for a novel.

If you can jerk off when you're not horny, you can write when you're not inspired.

HAVE I MENTIONED THAT I MASTURBATE TODAY? :soysnoo5:

If you never feel inspired for a particular story, it's time to ditch it.

You say: “I have many ideas of where the story should go next but none of them are good ones.”

Just write one of those, and eventually it will lead you back to a good idea. Or maybe you'll be surprised at how well it turns out. The whole idea is to keep going, not to make sure every aspect is great on the first try. Good luck!