Use a choke hold!!! Hit your creativity with a chair! Put on a cool costume!

*L* sorry... just the title was very humorous to me.

Lol, but but she cheats and bites

I have often been told that writing a general outline first helps, much like doing a quick rough sketch of what you want to draw helps the final image come together.

It is also a good idea to take a break every so often, get up, walk around, get yourself a drink or check and see if the world is still out there. Dont work yourself untill you absolutly hate the thhought of typing out another word, it wont help, and will hamper future efforts to be creative.

If you feel you must keep writing regardless, take a tip from the pro's: write something else. tinker with the outline, wright out a rough draft of another book, another chapter, or go back over what you have just writen looking for mistakes. You never know, you might come up with a better way to handle the events you just wrote out.

Dont let the fact that you are already working on one story keep you from writing out something for another one.

And if you are ever absolutly stuck, go back over your notes, that is what they are there for.

I may have to try that, most of the time i end up writing with no plan and on the fly

i know you can do this....
just stroke it gently, and it will come....
as for the writing, a rough outline can help, map out the plot points or events you want to happen. wright out the sections and connect the dots like a trail of breadcrumbs, it doesn't have to be linear that's what Copy & Paste editing is for
--Rick
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So very true