David Vining
It's not so much writer's block as just needing to find the motivation to actually sit down and do it. I'm never at a loss for what I should write next (I have scraps of ideas written all over the place on little post it notes), and when I'm in the middle of a project I have done so much planning on how the book will go it's most about just getting to the next point on the outline than inventing anything.
In dealing with motivation, I find it useful to separate myself from the rest of my life into a physical writing space. That was easier in the days when I worked in an office building. I could pull myself up from my desk, grab my binder of loose-leaf paper, and find an unused conference room. There I would write for a solid hour with little to no distraction, and I could manage at least three hand-written pages in that time. Now that I work from home, it's harder to make myself do something like that, and I have yet to find a truly consistent balance.
I'm working at it every day, though!
In dealing with motivation, I find it useful to separate myself from the rest of my life into a physical writing space. That was easier in the days when I worked in an office building. I could pull myself up from my desk, grab my binder of loose-leaf paper, and find an unused conference room. There I would write for a solid hour with little to no distraction, and I could manage at least three hand-written pages in that time. Now that I work from home, it's harder to make myself do something like that, and I have yet to find a truly consistent balance.
I'm working at it every day, though!
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