1 post tagged “writers block”

How do you beat writer's block? 
Submitted by marvel is my pen name.

Don't start at the beginning. I can never go from point a to point b when writing anything so I go from point x to z, then I realize that I can do point a to y, z to b, etc. From there filling in the gaps is easy.

I find it particularly fascinating that you really couldn't do this without a lot of retyping until the age of the word processor. I only adopted this policy recently since I'd been taught to start at the beginning growing up, just like everybody else, even though I the only thing I ever learned to type on was a word processor (all you old people can groan now). I wonder if it's really necessary to teach starting at the beginning these days or if it's probably still worthwhile so kids don't just write all the interesting and fun bits and ignore the rest of the writing which is something I definitely would have done if given the chance.