I.A. Ashcroft
It depends. I find writer's block comes in a lot of flavors. If I'm not feeling a particular scene, I skip to a different one that I am interested in - this is why I have scenes completed for two books down the road. If I NEED to write a scene I'm not feeling, though, I've found the best I can do is to lie down and go into a deep meditation for about twenty minutes. It is critical that everything is silent. This, unfortunately, means I do get interrupted a lot, and some critical scenes bother me for days or weeks like this. But once I get my twenty minutes... my brain pops out a little thread for me to tug, and it almost always eventually takes me where I want to go, even if it wasn't where I was expecting.
The thing I can't ever, ever do, though, is anything that isn't writing or thinking about writing, unless my writer's block is because I'm sleepy or hungry. Once my gears shift to a different task, my brain just will pretend the problem doesn't exist. And the scene? It'll never be written.
The thing I can't ever, ever do, though, is anything that isn't writing or thinking about writing, unless my writer's block is because I'm sleepy or hungry. Once my gears shift to a different task, my brain just will pretend the problem doesn't exist. And the scene? It'll never be written.
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