Gone East

How do you deal with writer's block?

Chip Scanlan, Poynter:

Whenever I'm blocked, (like right now when I'm convinced this answer has gone on for too long, isn't responding to the question, is boring, unfocused, in short, that it sucks) I lower my standards.

Correction, I do my best to not have any standards at all. I abandon my standards. I urge myself to write badly and once I do that my fingers begin to fly, and the inner critic is powerless.

Call it freewriting, or stream of consciousness, or whatever name sounds best, but it's the act of creating.