Goodreads asked Chris B. Bollweg:

How do you deal with writer’s block?

Chris B. Bollweg Everyone has their own methods for overcoming writer's block, so don't take this as solid advice. Firstly, I do anything creative that isn't writing. I'll read, play guitar, listen to music, watch movies or play games. While it seems like slacking off, I tend to chalk that up to "research time". I use other people's works as a way to look into the process of getting around the hangups in my own writing.

If I feel I've wasted enough time and the words still aren't flowing, I just hunker down and write my way through it. Any time you get writer's block, it's usually during the formative stage of a story, which will be mostly deleted or changed anyway. I take solace in the whole, "I'll fix it in the next draft" mantra. Otherwise, I'd agonize over getting everything perfect the first go, which is pointless and counterproductive to creativity. Perfection is a process, not an action.

flag