Chrystyna Lucyk-Berger
Number one, I've stopped believing in writer's block. I treat it as the lamest excuse ever, especially when I've got two series in the works (and separate journals for sketching scenes out).
Now, I write. Anything. 15-minute sprints, asking questions, changing POVs, writing from someone else's perspective. Or I switch to another series, scene, chapter. I change their names... I write about their shoes. I write about a box they open. You'll see some of these examples in my novels! :-)
These blocks usually come from not yet knowing my characters very well or what someone in the book has really done. So, if I really need to make headway and nothing else is coming to fruition--nothing sounds right--I go for a walk and talk to the character in question out loud. Or to my husband, who is really brilliant at coming up with ideas. And then I listen. This is the reason I got the dog. When my husband isn't with me, my neighbors believe I'm talking to Nebbiolo.
Now, I write. Anything. 15-minute sprints, asking questions, changing POVs, writing from someone else's perspective. Or I switch to another series, scene, chapter. I change their names... I write about their shoes. I write about a box they open. You'll see some of these examples in my novels! :-)
These blocks usually come from not yet knowing my characters very well or what someone in the book has really done. So, if I really need to make headway and nothing else is coming to fruition--nothing sounds right--I go for a walk and talk to the character in question out loud. Or to my husband, who is really brilliant at coming up with ideas. And then I listen. This is the reason I got the dog. When my husband isn't with me, my neighbors believe I'm talking to Nebbiolo.
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