How Do You Deal With Writer’s Block?

This month in The Lonely Writer’s Companion on Authorlink, I was asked how one deals with writer’s block.

The Lonely Writer responds:Let’s start with a few definitions, the first a textbook one, the second the Lonely Writer’s take on what’s really going on. According to the Holy Source of All Things (a.k.a. Wikipedia), writer’s block is “a condition…in which a writer loses the ability to create new work.”

Definitions like this suggest a symptom, which, once diagnosed, can then be cured. But writer’s block is no one-condition-fits-all syndrome. Some writers never begin writing. They talk about their idea(s) and what they’re going to write, often relating the entire story any time there’s a willing audience. But to sit down and actually write the damned thing? It just never seems to happen. … {read more here}