Lexie Elliott
I'm lucky in that so far my episodes of writer's block have been short-lived. If I'm honest, most of those episodes have come about because there is some element of what I'm writing that needs to be fixed, and that means I need to give myself thinking time. But since my writing time is somewhat limited, I'm loath to give it up, so one solution I've arrived at is to skip ahead to writing a scene that is planned for later in the novel; I can then come back to the troublesome section on another day when I've had time to mull it over.
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Hannah M.
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Lexie Elliott:
I was wondering if you had any characters, items, places, dialogues, etc. that you have taken out of your stories that I could use in a story idea that I had? The idea is about an island where every story piece that was given up on, thrown out or abandoned ends up. I've been asking authors if they have anything I could use because I want to put some truth in the idea. It's fine if you don't have anything. Thanks! :)
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