Think you’ve got a block and your story just isn’t right (but how do you fix it?)

Simple.

Keep a small pad of paper with you and a pen. You’ll never actually use it, but it’ll help you not feel so chained to your keyboard, and by nature you’ll suddenly find you start having more ideas out in the open. This means get outside. Remember to have a conversation with real people. Every once in a while. We aren’t autistic people, but by nature most writers focus so unbelievably hard they burn themselves out like a magnifier with the sun. The problem is probably bigger than the tail end little frazzled bit you’re stuck on. Rethink your whole structure. Be brave, it will get better.

Second, read up on symbols and metaphors to gain insight from other cultures. Take two symbols you’d never think could reasonably go together, and build a story between them that has some sort of personal relevance to you. Has to be two symbols that have no obvious relation to one another. That’s what will cause tension to revelation to insight in the story, and also what will challenge you in a structured environment so you’ll have a good starting place.

Flint + Flint. You figure it out from there. There’s no such thing as writer’s block.

There is however such a thing as feeling the pressure of a thousand suns pressing on your chest because you have wobbled so many spoons that you find at the end of your day off there’s still sooooo much more you could do, no matter that you’re sitting on a whole pile of them already.

Except it’s 1AM. And the laundry’s finally done.