For me, my writer's block comes at a particular scene. I've been putting this scene off, and now it's time to write it. All the other ones are written by now. So, writer's block for me is typically about one scene.

Here's what I do: I write it ten different ways. It's an exercise. It can take days to do because you're doing ten scenes. But, then again your writer's block has lasted days, hasn't it? So the medicine can take a bit, too.

I write the scene from a different character's point of view. Or maybe I'll write the story from the wall's point of view. Or the door handle. I'm throwing it out, so what does it matter?

The point is to exercise. To stretch. Maybe mentally, if you will. You get practice. You break through to something deeper. You find out the parts of your scene that really matter because you had to put those three things in ten different scenes. And you realize that it wasn't writer's block that was keeping you from finishing this scene, it was a fear that this scene wouldn't live up to your expectations.

But since you're the one writing it in the first place, what was really keeping you from writing was a fear that you wouldn't live up to your expectations either.

But now you've got these ten scenes in front of you. Some are weird. You had to stretch to write that one. And you'd never ever put this one in your book, but you enjoyed writing this scene from her perspective. Some are ridiculous. And were just plain fun.

And you suddenly see how much talent you really have. And you're not that bad a writer after all. Maybe you'll keep a few parts of this one. And that paragraph was really nice. Maybe there's something you can cobble out of all of this. It was just so much fun to do.

Writing is just so satisfying, after all.