Stepping Away From Your Work In Progress, Then Coming Back To It...
We've all been there, slaving away at a story and finding yourself getting more lost or frustrated with where it's going. Even if you have a well planned outline to guide you, there's always a scene or situation that arises that leaves you flummoxed and frustrated. You can't seem to move the story or yourself forward for one reason or another. What do you do? Well, in my case I get up and walk away from the story and I mean in every sense of the word. Step away from your computer and do other things. "But for how long?" I hear you ask. My answer is simply this, "As long as it takes." "But I can't stop writing, I've got so many ideas in my head..." GREAT! Go work on one of those instead. I'm not saying stop writing by any means. What I'm suggesting is that you let your brain work on other projects, or activities such as go bowling... Take a nice long walk... Go someplace... In...