3 Things You Can Do on a Bad Writing Day

Keep your head in the novel game

Alison Acheson
The Writing Cooperative
4 min readSep 22, 2021

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Photo by Angelina Litvin on Unsplash

Empty pages and pencil shavings. Bad day. Yet to take a day off can become two days off, can become a week… and suddenly you are no longer writing.

So a few pieces to keep your head in those pages.

1. Words

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My latest book is a memoir, Dance Me to the End: Ten Months and Ten Days With ALS. My newsletter is on Substack: THE UNSCHOOL FOR WRITERS.