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Rebecca Ross:
How do you deal with writer's block?
Rebecca Ross
I have a few tactics I like to use when I find that I'm facing the block.
1. Read a good book. Reading another author's writing is one of the best ways to refill my own love of words and storytelling. It never fails to inspire me to write.
2. Take the pressure off of myself by only writing 1,000 words a day until I find the flow of words again. As someone who is a typically a fast drafter, I feel discouraged if I am not cranking out pages. But sometimes, you only need to write a page or two. And that is okay.
3. Write whatever comes to mind. Whatever I feel like. The key here is to simply get the words flowing again. And it always amazes me, the sort of scenes and characters and dilemmas that emerge whenever I let myself write freely. Sometimes I find kernels of future novels within them.
4. Write by hand in a journal. I have broken through countless blocks by taking up a pen and drafting the scene on paper in my own handwriting.
5. Go for a walk outside. Listen to music. Study the stars. Soak in art.
1. Read a good book. Reading another author's writing is one of the best ways to refill my own love of words and storytelling. It never fails to inspire me to write.
2. Take the pressure off of myself by only writing 1,000 words a day until I find the flow of words again. As someone who is a typically a fast drafter, I feel discouraged if I am not cranking out pages. But sometimes, you only need to write a page or two. And that is okay.
3. Write whatever comes to mind. Whatever I feel like. The key here is to simply get the words flowing again. And it always amazes me, the sort of scenes and characters and dilemmas that emerge whenever I let myself write freely. Sometimes I find kernels of future novels within them.
4. Write by hand in a journal. I have broken through countless blocks by taking up a pen and drafting the scene on paper in my own handwriting.
5. Go for a walk outside. Listen to music. Study the stars. Soak in art.
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Kaela
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Rebecca Ross:
Hello Rebecca! I finished reading The Queen's Resistance and I absolutely adored it <3 It's a book I have been looking forward to reading ever since I devoured The Queen's Rising XD I loved the theme of family and adoption in your books! Of the new characters introduced in The Queen's Resistance, my favs were Ewan and Keela! What inspired you to create them?
Haley Lohrke
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Rebecca Ross:
Hello Rebecca! I am a just being introduced to your work! But that being said WOW! I loved Dreams Lie Beneath, do you think you would ever write a second book or maybe a Prequel with a more in-depth story to how it all started? Can't wait to pick up another book of yours in the future!
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