Getting stuck, part II

I probably should have posted this first, if I was going to blog about getting stuck. Because one of the more important things a writer needs to do when they're stuck, before trying to apply any of the techniques I was talking about, is to figure out why they are stuck.

Diagnosis is important, because different kinds of stuckness require different solutions. For instance, about 95% of the time when I get stuck, the reason is one of the following: 

a) an attack of insecurity (oh, god, I can't write