Is it really writer’s block if you have an idea, but can’t seem to form the right words around it? Is it perfectionism rearing its annoying head? Whatever you name it, the effect is the same: sentence after sentence refusing to play nice together and paragraphs that just won’t flow.
Experience has taught me to just keep writing. Eventually, by placing one word after another, the problem works itself out. Maybe I need to start at the middle, or write the conclusion and backtrack. Or maybe I need to grant myself permission to write a really, really awful first draft.
And maybe just writing about the problem is enough to let myself off the hook.
What do you do when the idea is solid, but the words won’t flow?
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