[writeclub] Day 12 NaNoWriMo breaking though writers block

It is nearly half way through the NaNoWriMo challenge and several of the students have hit the writers block wall.

So lots of talk at Write Club today about how to punch through that wall:

• Building good writing habits, 
• using the kitchen timer to drop everything and just write for 20 minute,
• giving yourself permission to jump around the story rather than write from start to end in chronological order.

The students have so far written over 20 thousand words combined with an average of 1800 words per story. I think that it is a great effort!

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I've been keeping them motivated by providing gummy snakes and/or bears and every few day I put our another motivational quote card for the kids to collect and decorate their writing space with.