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Getting stuck, part II

August 11, 2009 – 1:04 pm

I probably should have posted this first, if I was going to blog about getting stuck. Because one of the more important things a writer needs to do when they’re stuck, before trying to apply any of the techniques I was talking about, is to figure out why they are stuck.
Diagnosis is important, because different [...]

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Getting Stuck

August 8, 2009 – 1:56 pm

I’ve been getting quite a few questions in the mailbag recently about writer’s block, and invariably they end with the anguished plea, “How do you know what happens next?”
Which is a lot of the problem right there, in my opinon. Because “What happens next?” and “What do I do next?” are among the most useless [...]

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Better or not?

July 25, 2009 – 4:16 pm

One of the plagues of beginning writers is the feeling that they are doing something “wrong.”  Not wrong in the sense of technique - messing up viewpoint, for instance - but that they have made, are making, or will make, a wrong decision about “what happens next.”  They are haunted by the fear that it [...]

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