An Unconventional Cure for Writer’s Block
It’s a quiet week in the WD office, with many people already taking time off for the Thanksgiving holiday. So it’s hard to muffle our giggles over Write or Die,…
It's a quiet week in the WD office, with many people already taking time off for the Thanksgiving holiday. So it's hard to muffle our giggles over Write or Die, a tongue-in-cheek site spotted by one of my esteemed colleagues. The first sentence says it all: “Write or Die is a web application that encourages writing by punishing the tendency to avoid writing.” Kamikaze Mode (“Keep Writing or Your Work Will Unwrite Itself”) may be of particular interest to those in the homestretch of NaNoWRiMo.
—Jessica
Jane Friedman is a full-time entrepreneur (since 2014) and has 20 years of experience in the publishing industry. She is the co-founder of The Hot Sheet, the essential publishing industry newsletter for authors, and is the former publisher of Writer’s Digest. In addition to being a columnist with Publishers Weekly and a professor with The Great Courses, Jane maintains an award-winning blog for writers at JaneFriedman.com. Jane’s newest book is The Business of Being a Writer (University of Chicago Press, 2018).