10 Types of Writer's Block & How to Beat Them

[THE Rigil Kent]

io9.com had a really neat article today: Check it Out

I'm definitely guilty of #2, #3 and #8. #9 plagues me fairly frequently as well...

[Aquarius]

Oooh! Great find, Rigil! Thanks for sharing it with us.

[Misplaced]

#2, #4, #7, #8 & #9. Probably #4 and #8 by far, though. (Though, Dark Echoes suffers from #3.)

Fantastic article. Thank you for sharing!

[EntAllat]

Ditto on the cool article.

For me, #1 used to be a problem, but with all the Twitterfic planning, the drabble exercises, the challenges, etc., I've got ideas coming to me when I don't want 'em to. Definitely NOT a problem now.

#3 is still a big problem, though. Slogging through that one bit of the story/outline to connect the parts is just .... arrrrrrgh. But what I'm beginning to understand is that if I feel that way about writing it, someone's going to feel that way about reading it. Something needs to change in my outline to connect up the story parts.

#8 still bugs me. I would have it all in my head when I was, say, driving down the interstate with nothing to write it down or even record it. I could come up with all these beautiful lines of prose to convey what I wanted to say! Of course they'd vanish by the time I sat down to write and I'd be stuck trying to tweak the same two paragraphs for hours to get the picture right. It used to paralyze me - I'd quit writing on the story - but now I just highlight the little SOB section and come back to it after other stuff was done.