Lyle Milton
I'm a Jumper; I jump between plotting & pantsing, as needed. Up to this point, that *had* help me avoid writer's block. *Had*.
Writer's block is a symptom of a greater problem: a lack of imaging and/or planning. Case in point, in my current WIP (the second novel in my Man Zero series), I recently ran into trouble in the 3rd act. The reality is that I hadn't fully visualized what should happen, which means I wasn't at the "couldn't *not* write it" stage. So, even plotting couldn't help me. The best solution was to forget about what I'd already written and be willing to throw it all away. And when I became detached from what was already on the page, new images came to me, *building* on what was already there. Now I'm chomping at the bit to write them. And now... I must get back to it....
Writer's block is a symptom of a greater problem: a lack of imaging and/or planning. Case in point, in my current WIP (the second novel in my Man Zero series), I recently ran into trouble in the 3rd act. The reality is that I hadn't fully visualized what should happen, which means I wasn't at the "couldn't *not* write it" stage. So, even plotting couldn't help me. The best solution was to forget about what I'd already written and be willing to throw it all away. And when I became detached from what was already on the page, new images came to me, *building* on what was already there. Now I'm chomping at the bit to write them. And now... I must get back to it....
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