Sky K asked Veronica Roth:

Struggling to get into the flow lately, any tips?

Veronica Roth Some tips:

- Try going back to the point when you last felt like your story was working...and move everything after that point to a new document that you will call "deleted stuff." Then start again from that "working" point.
- Take a break and work on something else
- Take a break and don't work on anything. Just do other things you like in the time you would have spent writing and try not to think about writing for awhile.
- Make a story playlist and listen to it while you try to remember what sparked your interest in the project to begin with
- Gather up a bunch of stuff you love in your mind (books, movies, tv, whatever) and consider what you love about each thing. Then think about how you might introduce some of the things you love into the story you're working on, even if that wasn't part of the original plan.
- Relatedly: throw out or change the original plan.
- Make a new document and start experimenting. Try writing from a new POV, writing a scene from later in the story, rewriting an old scene in a different way, writing in a new tense, only writing dialogue, a random barista AU, I don't care, just do weird shit and keep doing it until you hate it and then try new weird shit.
- Read what you have out loud to yourself.
- Reread an old favorite.
- Look at something old you've written and think about how to mash it up with the thing you're working on.
- Drink some water
- Talk to a friend about what's not working
- Talk to yourself in the shower, playing the part of a character in your scene.
- Scream into the void
- Stare into the void
- Become void yourself

I feel like that's enough to get you started. Good luck!

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