VelkynKarma's avatar
Writer's block is definitely a pain in the butt. As for your questions...

1) Yes, I've dealt with writer's block. Time is usually the solution to getting over it, but I do have some tricks I fall back on (see #2)

2) I usually deal with writer's block by backing away from the fic for a bit, because it usually occurs when I either
A) burn myself out by writing too much (there's no energy left to keep creating) or
B) I'm just not sure how to solve a particular writing problem and I need to refresh and look at it from a new angle.
So I'll do something else...go on a walk, read a book, play a video game. I often find when I come back to the fic later I'll have ideas or energy to keep going again--sometimes I'll even come up with a solution in the middle of walking or playing a game! In the case of the first one, sometimes it takes a week or even a month to regenerate enough energy, but by now I know this is just how I am and move on to other things for the time being--I know eventually I'll come back to this writing project when I'm feeling it again.

3) It's usually either particularly intense scenes, or transition scenes, that end up giving me writer's block. Really intense scenes (highly emotional conversations, extremely serious moments, etc) are some of my favorite things to write, but they DO drain a lot of energy out of me when I'm struggling to convey that intensity on a page. As a result sometimes these scenes come in fits and starts (ex. jotting down only 200 words one night, 300 the next night, etc). Transition scenes (those scenes in between major events that you need to sew everything together, but tend to have low intensity) can get kinda boring and sometimes it's hard to figure out how to handle them well, and I've found writer's block happens a lot here, too. Those are usually the blocks that last anywhere from days to months for me. In terms of non-writing outside sources, particularly stressful times in my life tend to lead to writer's block too (if I'm stressing over family issues, job or school issues, etc, I tend to not be creative, so I don't get writing done). The last is the unpredictable one and that one really sucks.

~VelkynKarma