It's the age-old challenge and the age-old question. Writer's block. How to solve it? Everyone faces it, some more often than others, and, as an author, I get asked the question:
What's your solution?
My solution to writer's block is to write.
Yes, this sounds like the sort of answer that doesn't really help, but the truth is the only way through anything is, well, through it. Like the old Nike commercials: Just do it. When it comes to writing, if I can't seem to get going I just make myself write. Something. Anything. I don't worry about how horrible or how dumb or how anything what I'm writing sounds. We live in an age of electronics where we can type and correct and type and correct and fix and remove and type again. There should be no pressure to get a first draft anywhere near perfect. In fact, the final result may be completely changed from that initial effort.
Don't get hung up on getting it exactly right. Not even close. Especially not the first time. The more you try to edit as you create, the more it bogs you down. Stream of consciousness. Get it out. Just ... get it out. Edit later. Type "blah blah blah" if you can't think of the words; put in raw ideas for now, even if you can't think of the exact, most eloquent way to say it; just get it out of your head and come back and make it make sense later.
Write. That's the solution.
Writing absolutely destroys writer's block.
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