Smash Writer's Block Card Deck - Digital version

You fought with your brain for three hours to write 200 words.

The next day, you sweat and bleed for 50.

After that, you avoid writing. You don't know what happens next anyway, and your characters are giving you the silent treatment.

You feel like you're facing a boulder you'll never be able to push out of the way.

Writer's block happens for a few reasons.

One is that something in your story has gone wrong. Your characters know and refuse to move forward. Your subconscious knows and refuses to let you travel down a dead end.

The good news is that once you get past that block, your story will be better than before because writer's block is an opportunity to find your story's weak spots and turn them into strengths.

It's a chance to boost your writing skills and create a story that readers will remember.

You just need to learn how.

Introducing the Smash Writer's Block card deck.  

Our team of authors compiled the questions we ask ourselves to uncover what is rattling around in the story and repair it before the whole thing blows up.

With Smash Writer's Block, you'll learn:

• Ways to think deeper about your novel so you can find the source of your writer's block— and better yet, fix what went wrong in your book.
• How to discover aspects of your story you missed, so you can improve your book NOW without beta readers or editors (though you'll need those later on).
• How to find renewed inspiration for all aspects of your story from characters to worldbuilding to plot and more!

An amazing novel is there inside you. Sometimes you need help drawing it out.

This is for you if

• Your characters have stopped talking to you, your plot is floundering, and your story is coming apart like a haunted scarecrow after you hit it with a weed whacker.
• You want to write and have an existing book to work on, but it feels like you have to wrench each word from a dragon's jaws.
• You want to play around with new ideas for your project and discover aspects of your characters, world, and plot that you haven't considered before.
• You're tired of waiting for inspiration. Who has the time?

This is NOT for you if

• You're looking for a brand new idea for a story. Our method is for breaking writer's block on existing projects!

The details

Pull a random card, read the prompt, and start brainstorming and writing.

No more angst, no more wasted time, no more unfinished novels.

Note: These are the same prompts as in the Smash Writer's Block book.

Two ways to use your digital cards:

Method 1: The printed version

• Download your PDF
• Select Print>Multiple. Next to "Pages per Sheet", choose 4 or 6, depending on how large you want the cards.
• Cut out the cards. Some of them say "see reverse", which means they have a related prompt on the card before or after them. Glue these ones back to back so the connected prompts stay together.
• Shuffle the deck, pull a card, and start writing.

Method 2: The paperless version

• Pull up a random number generator and enter numbers 5-204.
• Generate a random number and navigate to that page in the PDF.
• Read the card. If it mentions a reverse side that means it has a related prompt on the card before or after. 
• Start writing.

Want a physical card deck? Click here.