Stephen DesBrisay
The way I deal with writer's block is to just write the scenes that I know are going to happen or may happen. Skip ahead and write what you know. It could be a dramatic conversation in a key scene or a setup narrative, anything that you know has to happen in your story.
I'm on my second book in a trilogy and I know basically how the story goes and what will happen in the end. But how I get from one plot point to the next usually naturally reveals itself between the scenes that I know will happen. My first book I wrote in a purely linear fashion. In the second book, I'm actually writing some of the most dramatic scenes towards the end of the story first and that will help to pull me forward like a bright light at the end of a tunnel.
I'm on my second book in a trilogy and I know basically how the story goes and what will happen in the end. But how I get from one plot point to the next usually naturally reveals itself between the scenes that I know will happen. My first book I wrote in a purely linear fashion. In the second book, I'm actually writing some of the most dramatic scenes towards the end of the story first and that will help to pull me forward like a bright light at the end of a tunnel.
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