5 Tips for When You’re Stuck in a Scene

By Janice Hardy, @Janice_Hardy

Getting stuck in a scene can bring your novel to a screeching halt, but there are ways to get unstuck and keep on writing.

It happens to every writer at some point—the writing is clicking along, then suddenly it’s not. You hit a wall, you no longer like what you originally planned, the muse is nowhere to be found and she took the bucket for your creative well with her.

It’s not writer’s block, it’s just a scene that refuses to get out of your head and onto the page in a way that resembles decent writing. Or so-so writing. Or even bad writing. Let’s face it—the scene is totally giving you the finger.

Over the years, I’ve spent plenty of days struggling with horrifically rude scenes that just did not want to work, even though I knew (or thought I knew) exactly how the scene was going to unfold. Here are five tricks that always help me get the scene moving again.
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