What to do when you get stuck in your writing

Here are a few tips that might help you.

1. Ron Carlson, in his book Ron Carlson Writes a Story,said that when he hits a place in his writing where he doesn’t know how to go on, he stops. He does not get up for a cup of coffee or to check the mail. He does not go online to scroll throughFacebook or read blurbs on amazon.com. He sits in front of his computer–or typewriter or pad of paper–and he waits for twenty minutes until he is ableto write his way into the next sentences of his narrative. T...