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/r/writing: "Writing a novel in thirty days but I'm totally blank on day 3." 
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? 
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? 
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.”
Day 3 is way too early for sunk cost, how about writing something you actually like? 
Well I've been procrastinating since 5 years so I'd say my target is 5 years and 30 days
Neighbor write a short story or something goddarn
Why would you want to be a writoid if you never have ideas?
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1600 words a day leaves no room for editing or re reading or anything, it's going to be trash
Also why would you write a book if you don't have a story, that's kind of the whole point
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There's something to the Stephen King school of writing, just belt out your first draft as fast as possible and see whether it can be edited into something decent when the coke wears off.
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If you've got the thing mostly in your head already, sure. But without any idea about anything? Huge waste of time
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I can see the benefit of writing just to write if you're in a lull and need to keep fresh but only if youre the type that will have a decent story to turn out later. Even then, make it productive - mark down every single thing you did that day but make it overwhelming and dramatic, write a menial guide to something from the perspective of someone who barely understands english.
Otherwise it feels masturbatory in service of "being a writer"
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Legitimately would rather go through years of no writing than do this
I wrote TONS a decade or so ago then spent like 5 or 6 years without putting a single letter to paper, picked it up again about 2 years ago and I'm writing fairly consistently now
I guess if you have to write to get paid it's different but as a hobby why bother when your heart isnt in it
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TBF it's nanowrimo
The goal is less "finish your bestselling novel within the month" and more, "Put some words to paper and hopefully endup with with the start of a first draft by the end or at least learn a lot about the process along the way"
That said
Holy shit these neighbors looks like a dorks
In my experience you end up with someone way more coherent if you go in with some kind of drafting process already done (duh)
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Wtf is Kissinger doing on the middle far right
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1667 is the NaNoWriMo target. I remember doing it a couple times as a teenager. It can be a useful exercise if the only goal is to practice a writing habit or to force out a draft of something. You just have to understand it's something for you, rather than something to brag about
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I think it teaches the useful muscle for writers of writing even when you don't feel like it.
Motivation is a lying mistress; whether you are training in the gym, learning a language or writing a book you can't rely on it.
It also teaches a second lesson, which is that drafts are worth nothing without hundreds of hours of editing
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I tried but writing just for the sake of finishing a novel has never left me with anything worthwhile. The OP can't even be bothered to storyboard on his own before running to reddit
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