No matter how hard I try to stay on schedule and write everyday, sometimes days, weeks, even months pass by without having written a single word, or edited a single page of my work in progress.
Sometimes I've just run out of ideas . Other times my method doesn't seem to be working anymore . And of course there are times when more pressing things take precedence . However, I refuse to call this pause a writer's block. Instead, I call it, 'simmering on the back burner.'
Recently this happened. I had finished the first draft of my latest book and was going through the word document top to bottom. This was very painful because I had to move blocks of text as well as chapters around. Normally I enjoy editing, but this time I just had no energy for it.
One day, I received a newsletter from Scrivener, the writing program I had used in the past and a light bulb went on in my brain. Of course! Scrivener makes it so much easier to move blocks of text and chapters around. So I imported my manuscript into the program and I'm now happily editing once again.
I highly recommend Scrivener for a book length project whether fiction, memoir, or nonfiction or even a long article or thesis.
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