WIP Challenge Check-in, Day 5 -- Wednesday

[linaewen]

Hello on Wednesday! What kind of a writing day has it been today -- or yesterday, if today hasn't gotten going yet?

• I thought about my fic once or twice
• I wrote
• I did some planning and/or research
• I edited
• I've sent my fic off to my beta
• I posted today!
• I'm taking a break
• I did something else that I'll talk about in a comment

Wednesday Discussion - Writers Block via the Fanfic Flamingo.  Does writers block or the equivalent strike frequently, or is it a "now and then" kind of thing?  How do you deal with it?

Comments

[linaewen]

I actually wrote yesterday! I was writing a short fixed-length fic for a challenge, and of course, a longer story came out, so I spent hours trying to edit it down to the correct length. But I managed it. Thankfully no writers block yesterday!

I generally don't actually get writers block (except for one fic which has me blocked in a particular scene) -- what keeps me from being able to write is more circumstance/amount of busy related. If I can free myself of the need to think about other things I should be doing instead of writing, I can usually make quite a bit of progress! When dealing with being blocked, I tend to listen to music, review my notes, do some more research; a combo of those usually gets me going again.