Angela Stevens
I always have numerous projects on the go, each at different stages, requiring different types of writing. If I'm struggling in one area I find switching tack and working on one of my other projects helps prevent the writers block set in.
At the moment I've been struggling through a huge rewrite of the middle part of my trilogy. It's not exactly writers block but some chapters have been such an enormous challenge, I have been overwhelmed by them. In this case I have found it useful to skip ahead and edit chapters further on in the book. Each day I return to the 'bad' chapter and take another look. Sometimes I have to rinse and repeat this for several days before a spark will fire me up and I can zoom off again. But even if it's taken me a week to get back to it I feel good about myself because I edited and rewrote several other chapters while I got over my stumbling block.
At the moment I've been struggling through a huge rewrite of the middle part of my trilogy. It's not exactly writers block but some chapters have been such an enormous challenge, I have been overwhelmed by them. In this case I have found it useful to skip ahead and edit chapters further on in the book. Each day I return to the 'bad' chapter and take another look. Sometimes I have to rinse and repeat this for several days before a spark will fire me up and I can zoom off again. But even if it's taken me a week to get back to it I feel good about myself because I edited and rewrote several other chapters while I got over my stumbling block.
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