Goodreads asked William Kely McClung:

How do you deal with writer’s block?

William Kely McClung I rarely run out of ideas! But... I don't always know which direction I want to take. The rare times it does hit me, I think it's even scarier as I don't really have much experience in dealing with it. Still... one easy way for me to face the blank page that fights to stay blank, is to begin writing what I am NOT to going to write about.

Say I have a man in room, trapped. No way out. I've painted him and myself into a corner. One way to face it is to decide what he won't do. He won't become invisible and hide in the shadows. He won't shrink and crawl under the door. He won't beam himself to the mothership. He won't...

And soon, I am back in the flow of putting words on paper. The crazier and more interesting my ideas of what I am NOT going to write about start me down paths that become interesting and worth exploring.

flag