Fifteen-year-old Peg believes that everyone is born with certain quotas: their bodies are already programmed with the number of people they’ll sleep with, the amount of soda they’ll drink, the number of countries they’ll travel to. One Tuesday morning, Peg wakes up and realizes she’s exhausted her quota of speech.
Not a bad start. I could do something with this. When you’ve got “writer’s block,” you need a bit, an idea, anything, to get the mental juju to restart your pen.
Enter 911 Writer’s Block, which may be the answer to a writer’s prayer. A portion of the Webook, a collaborative book publishing site, 911 Writer’s Block is their solution to the age-old problem of “I’ve run out of ideas.” The keypad display invokes starters when you: “Pick 1 for Settings, Pick 2 for Characters…” Each button offers up solutions that will help you start to cover that page with prose again.
So if you’re trying to finish your Great American Novel (or any country’s novel, for that matter) and you can’t come up with more than “it was a dark and stormy night,” your help is here: 911 Writer’s Block.
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