Some days I struggle.  Some days the words flow from me like snot on a bitterly cold day.  Some days it’s less than struggling – I can’t even figure out where to begin, really.  So I never do.  Days off, I call them (for fear of my sensitive ego catching wind of my failure to perform.)  Just simply taking a break…

Writer’s block.  Dun dun duuunnn!  We all get stuck every now and then.  If you believe in writer’s block, of course.  Some don’t.  To each their own.  I don’t know what they call it if not writer’s block, though.  A temporary lapse in creativity?  The term “writer’s block” is a vague one, that’s for sure.  We can all agree on that.  Sometimes it refers to all writing.  Sometimes it refers to just that one piece you’re working on.  I call the latter “genre block.”  I’ll get jammed up in my fantasy writing and can’t come up with anything, but then I’ll effortlessly hammer out a thousand words on a romance manuscript.  It’s weird.

Today is not one of those bad days.  Today I am on track to reach my daily 2,500 words.  On my fantasy manuscript too, which makes me happy.  It’s the continuation of my Infinity series, Station and Consequence.  Which begins the new series with the same name.  The first in this new series is actually titled Station and Consequence: Absolution.  Absolution is the name of a city.  That’s all you’re getting.  I really want to go into more detail, but I’m forcing myself to stop there.  I’m horrible about self-spoilers.

Anyway… I’ve found the only way to move past it is to move through it.  I keep writing.  As I said above, it usually (hopefully) just turns out to be a genre block and I can still write something, at least.  Maybe not on the piece I really want to finish, but on another piece that needs finishing all the same.  But in the event it is true writer’s block, I just close Word for the day and venture out into world wide web.  Sometimes creativity is sparked doing this, other times I just find some new funny videos to laugh at.  Or I’ll actually go out into the real world, which is also fun.

What are some things that help you push through a block?