What comes next…how I avoid writer’s block

I will say right up front, I’ve never had writer’s block.
There are some, no doubt, who would say, maybe I SHOULD have had it, or I just can't ADMIT I had it. Or I kept writing even THOUGH I had it.
But whatever! I’ve always managed to keep writing.
So in the vein of giving writer’s advice…it’s what we do here, right?
And keeping in mind that there is no one right way to write a book, feel free to do what works for YOU and ignore me.
I often, at the end of a scene, jump ahead. Or jump somewhere else, to another character in another place.
So I’ll finish a scene and then get ready to jump…and I’m not sure WHERE to jump.
And that’s where I use this simple trick.
I catch myself. Stop myself from jumping. You don’t always have to jump. Instead, I simply ask myself.
What comes next. And I mean this is very simple terms. Where are they right now. Where are they standing. If I jump no where, let no time pass, then what comes next. They have to walk somewhere, or make a meal, or saddle a horse. Do that.
Do what comes next. I think for me, the danger of writer’s block comes when I’m trying to get fancy.
And then this goes to revisions. I can get fancy later.
I once cut 5000 words from a book, after taking a long time to write them, based on What Comes Next. I could quit see how to make the jump…so I wrote along until I got to where that jump should start, then went back and cut everything out that got me there.
THOSE WORDS AREN’T WASTED.
In fact though they didn’t need to take that long train right IN THE BOOK…it was okay to just jump to the end of it…I did realize later that on that train ride a lot of relationship development happened, some character development, some talk of where they were going and why.
So I went back and dug that out and put it back in…much shorter…but I used about half those words.
So that’s it. This is sort of ridiculous of a post probably, but I just did this. I just wrote myself to the end of my ideas and wanted some splashy JUMP and found myself thinking, What Comes Next.
It’s a small trick that helps me navigate around writer’s block.
You’re welcome.Do you have tricks? Has anyone got little tricks that help them navigate their writing. The truth is, I'll bet you do, but you use them and never think much about them.Share if you can dig them out. It might help us all keep writing.Today I'm giving away a signed copy ofThe Unexpected Champion.
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