Either I’ve never had it, or I have it all the time. I can’t write on my own. I’ve started a hundred things, and never spent more than a couple days on any of them. Most only one day. Fluther is good for me because I can write a few paragraphs in response to ten different things, and it’s done. Not that any stuff I write here is worth anything anywhere else besides here.
On the other hand, if I do not have writers block, it’s because I let the movie (story) unfold inside my head. I just picture what’s happening, and something always happens next. I don’t even have to think about it. It’s when I plan or try to make something happen that shit gets in the way.
I say let the characters take over. Then you don’t have to work at all. Just follow them around. I say don’t try to make things happen. The story will fight you to a standstill. Let it go where it wants to.
I was leading some improvisational dance over the weekend. I was leading the workshop and the musicians. I really, really wanted to step things up and get out of this deep interior space everyone had gone into, and I couldn’t do it. It was like trying to get a balky horse to trot. You kick it and finally it goes into a trot, and then you relax, and the horse is walking again.
Sometimes you gotta give in to the theme of the evening. Or of your writing, if that’s what you’re doing.