#writeadvice

I remember an old #yalitchat conversation where the group meandered down one of the many side conversations and began talking about getting "unstuck" and cindypon and I both agreed that the best thing to do was take a shower or wash your hair or do dishes -- something mundane and habitual that you can do on autopilot with part of your brain and limbs in attendance and the rest of your thoughts merrily daydreaming somewhere else. Laugh as you will, it works.

These are the bits of writerly advice that sound so trivial and are oh so true that I wish I'd known of them earlier as it could have saved a lot of *headdesking* and subsequential freak-outs at my computer or on the phone. If we could save one another even a tiny moment of angst over the keyboard or hacking through the biz, I think it's worth doing! So I turn it over to you, the Great LJ Hive Mind and the Twitterverse at large to share a piece of writerly advice, either having to do with craft, queries, critiques, or the professional business of writing, and include it in the comments or on Twitter with the hashtag #writeadvice. You never know what golden nugget is exactly the thing you needed to read today!

This is an awesome community. Pay It Forward!

Mine: "Stuck on plot/character/pacing/what's next? Take a shower. #writeadvice"