Best-selling author and USC Creative Writing Professor Gina B. Nahai talks with with Poets & Writers Magazine about finding inspiration. She offers this suggestion:
“(S)ome of my students who’ve had trouble finishing a book or a story because they keep second-guessing every word they write, swear by the Web application Write or Die, which ‘encourages writing by punishing the tendency to avoid writing.’ I’m told it’s stressful, but I’ve seen great results in terms of productivity.”
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