The problem isn’t always where you think it is.
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Unless you’re very, very lucky, at some point in your writing you’re going to get stuck. You’ll write yourself into a corner and won’t be able to figure out how to get your protagonist where they need to go, or maybe you’ll have no idea what the conflict is supposed to be. You’ll sit at the keyboard and grow more and more frustrated by the minute until you want to scream. Or take up botany.
It’s not writer’s block—you can write, it’s just that the scene has stalled and you don’t know what to do to get it moving again.
Instead of struggling to fix the scene that’s not working, try this:
It’s not writer’s block—you can write, it’s just that the scene has stalled and you don’t know what to do to get it moving again.
Instead of struggling to fix the scene that’s not working, try this: