Writer's block. Any tips on how to get over it?

Go to a different part of the book. Or go out and look for inspiration in people, nature, art, etc.

Journal about it. Keep writing. If you can’t write about anything else, write about the writer’s block. Bitch, moan, and lament about it in writing. Whine about your inadequacy to the task, moan about how bad your book is, wail about how hopeless it all is. Either you’ll laugh about it later…or you’ll be prophetically right.

I learned this trick in a writer’s workshop: Brainstorm. Write a word down. Write other words down that it triggers in your memory. Repeat.

Also, if I’m stuck on a particular part of a story I’m writing, I go and write a different part. Sometimes, I’ll write the ending first, then the middle, then the beginning of a story. Don’t be trapped into thinking you have to write the story in linear order.

Just write. As @Jeruba said, about anything. Write about what you are seeing in your room. Write about the weather today.

I read a good tip to avoid writer’s block too, always finish at a point where you still have something to say. That way you are back into your writing straight away when you go back to it.

And write regularly. The more you write, the more of a habit it becomes and I find, it is easier to get back into the writing zone and off again. If I don’t write every day (a problem for me at the moment), it becomes hard to get started. Bit like your muscles ceasing up. You have to exercise your brain.

Instead of what your supposed to write try something completely different.

Try writing in a different location if you typically have one spot you sit and write.

As others have mentioned, set a timer for 3 minutes and write “flow of conscious” sorta like the brainstorming idea.

Try writing with a different instrument. If you normally type on a computer, try using a pen or a pencil or maybe an old typewriter.

Pat Pattison created what he calls “object writing” and his site I believe is called, “Pat’s Parlor”. He is a professor at Berkley. Pick an object to write about, say pepper, write what comes to mind about that object, about the taste, what it reminds you of, how it makes you feel, the colors of it… you may wind up writing about soup in your mom’s kitchen.

Pick a color and tell how you may perceive it not just visually but with all your senses, what would you imagine it to taste like? What would it feel like if you could touch it? What music would describe it?

Anything to get the creative juices flowing!

As you can probably tell, I am not a serious writer (my punctuation is often a sad case), but my “BG” (best good friend) is, so I picked her brain!

Hope you get the flow going again soon ; )

Google up some writing prompt generators. They can help if you’re trying to create something random.

While all good ideas, most writers are working on a particular story (sometimes under a deadline, or at least something they’ve promised their publisher), so they need help to get past the block to continue with the story at hand, not whatever their whim or creativity happens to take them from moment to moment. That’s the biggest problem.

Another suggestion: a bull session with other writers who are working in the same genre or on similar projects. The flow of ideas back and forth can often evoke “Aha!” moments.

Kill a few transients, you know, blow off some steam.

A heavily laden vodka martini in the company of my favorite hookers generally get my creative juices flowing again.

This doesn’t exactly answer your question, but I’m working on a writing project and I discovered The Pomodoro Technique. It’s super simple, and I’m getting a lot done since 25 minutes isn’t a huge commitment, so you can write about a tiny thing to fill up that time and it will inspire you of other things to write.

How to get over it? Never get into it in the first place.

Writer’s block doesn’t exist. It’s a concept made up by some poor benighted writer who had it in for everyone else. If we never thought of ourselves as blocked, we wouldn’t be blocked. We don’t have to label a space of time where we aren’t writing what we think we’re supposed to be writing a “block.” We don’t have to think of it at all.

Really. Your mind is racing all the time. Just pay attention. Watch it go. Write down what you see. If you do that you can never be blocked because if you don’t see anything, it means your are unconscious… or dead.

Read the War of Art. Great book!

@wundayatta I think I get what you’re saying.
Thank you everyone! :)