Stephanie Flint
I have a ton of story ideas I like to work on, so I rarely feel like I have true writer's block. That being said, there are times when I'm not really in the mood to write, or I don't know how to approach a scene.
If it's the case that I'm not in the mood to write sometimes I'll switch over to a different writing project (since I write in slightly varying genres, the projects themselves will have different moods to them). Other times I'll work on editing and revision instead--cleaning up the manuscript rather than writing something completely new. An example of this is when I want something a little more lighthearted, I might work more on The Wishing Blade series (Middle-Grade/YA Fantasy). If I want to work on something a bit darker, I'll switch to The Multiverse Chronicles (Adult Steampunk Fantasy War story - an online blog series). Both feature war and fighting. but the approach, depending on the scene, is a bit different.
In the case that I don't know how to approach a scene, a lot of times I'll find music that fits the mood, and listen to that while daydreaming the scene from multiple angles. I've got eclectic music tastes. I might go from listening to Epica and Xandria to Gordon Lightfoot and Dan Fogelberg in the same day, all while working on different scenes.
If it's the case that I'm not in the mood to write sometimes I'll switch over to a different writing project (since I write in slightly varying genres, the projects themselves will have different moods to them). Other times I'll work on editing and revision instead--cleaning up the manuscript rather than writing something completely new. An example of this is when I want something a little more lighthearted, I might work more on The Wishing Blade series (Middle-Grade/YA Fantasy). If I want to work on something a bit darker, I'll switch to The Multiverse Chronicles (Adult Steampunk Fantasy War story - an online blog series). Both feature war and fighting. but the approach, depending on the scene, is a bit different.
In the case that I don't know how to approach a scene, a lot of times I'll find music that fits the mood, and listen to that while daydreaming the scene from multiple angles. I've got eclectic music tastes. I might go from listening to Epica and Xandria to Gordon Lightfoot and Dan Fogelberg in the same day, all while working on different scenes.
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