Goodreads asked Jordan Creed:

How do you deal with writer’s block?

Jordan Creed I have a two-step plan to writer's block, actually. The first is simply prevention. In my experience, the best protection is organization. For each of my stories, I always outline the major plot points, then summarize the individual chapters, then briefly outline the details of the chapters, then finally write them. I spend nearly as much time planning as I do writing, in fact. (To read more about my writing model, see my blog post on my website: https://www.jordancreed.com/single-po...). I have found that model of working from the outside in to prevent writer's block most of the time.

However, I have encountered one or two instances of writer's block before. That's where my second step is implemented. It may seem counterintuitive, but my solution to writer's block is writing. If I can't afford to skip to a further part of the story, I force myself to bear down, armour up, and drudge through it. I remind myself that I can always return to this draft and fix it later. I just need to put something down and continue along, however bad it may be.

Although that plan may not work for everyone, I've found it to save me from a few sticky situations in the past years.

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