Happy new year! And happy writing in 2009! I’m setting some lofty new years resolutions for this upcoming year of writing, and I’m sure some of you are too. To help out with this, I tried introduced you to writing really fast yesterday, but today I stumbled across an interesting website with yet another strategy to get your writing. It’s called “1ne, 2wo, 5ver” and describes a strategy that helps you get started on writing. It starts with one word. Basically it sounds like it could be just any word, and is meant just to get you started onto the second word, and then onwards to the next X words.

Why I like it

I always have a lot of trouble getting started with writing. Being the perfectionist I am, I do not always follow the rules of writing fast, but use the excuse that I just don’t have the right wording to not write at all (on my own projects, of course). As a consequence, the book I’ve started has spurts of movement forward whenever I come across some good writing strategies that completely discredit my procrastination strategies.

This is one of them… it basically comes down to the advice I always give:

Just sit down and write….