"It's stopped being about Nuclear Winter, and started being about a house with a thousand detailed rooms."

As I've stated before, I restarted my novel on the 9th. I brought myself to 23,000 plus words in the past few days and I've slowed to a crawl.

Welcome to the Writers' Wasteland.

The writers' Wasteland is an area of imagination that is barren, dry, and in need of a good rain and some tender loving care. Week three often soaks up all of that creativity, leaving you with the "what next?" Factor. When you get over that factor, you actually get some momentum to finish but let's be honest; it seems like the Wasteland is never ending during this week.

So, are you going for quantity over quality? If so, welcome to the Rooms club. In the quote that's the title I mention something that's happened during week two. I got the block, a huge unsightly Thwomp from a Mario castle, and to get over it I just wrote about rooms. In excruciating detail. My book is about a girls journey to find the truth behind a nuclear winter after she comes down from a space station to Earth. And suddenly, it's become this monster of a house.

There's blue rooms, green rooms, Victorian rooms and peasant rooms. There's a morgue room, and a kitchen, a lab, library, green house, and several lavish bathrooms. It's a brilliant practice, to write about something completely unrelated to your story but something that, if your characters entered a house, made a nice catalog of rooms to pick from. And each room is 500-800 words easily.

Again, if you want quantity over quality, try writing about your dream room, a room you once had, or a room that can only exist in dreams.