This method will break the wall that's stop you from writing

When I used to get stuck at writing a novel, on a page where I didn’t know what to write and where to go. Sometimes at dialogues, at scenes, and even at finding good words. I had my outline, but it wasn’t working. I mean, it did work, but like it didn’t help me break the wall that wasn’t allowing me to go forward.

I struggled with it, though. At first, it caused me to avoid writing whenever I got stuck; I just stopped writing, and the feeling of going back to writing was dreadful. There was a need for a powerful force to make me write down something. But one day, I thought, why not look for an answer? A way that could help me break through this wall.

After I start doing it, I actually helped myself out well.

First step

The first thing you have to do is take at least half an hour for a walk; take your headphones or AirPods with you. During this thirty-minute break, what I want you to do is imagine your story from where you left off. Let’s say there’s a scene that’s really difficult or an arc that’s taking time.

How should you imagine? You might be thinking, like, all the complex parts you have been dreaming to write? No… First, you need to imagine what you have written in your outline. Outlines are short; they have no dialogues. They aren’t capturing all scenes and feelings. They only show a path to your story. What you need to do is expand that outline. Usually it’s done directly in the writing software as a first draft, then a second, then a third, but here you will take another step.

Imagine, expand that outline, those short written lines, into a pile of reality of imagination.

You’re now walking, your headphones in your ears, and listening to some badass music. You will then imagine that exact scene from where you left off in the novel, and not only that, but you also have to imagine them talking. Then from there you will keep imagining up to the point you planned to finish the novel or to the point where you will finish today’s page.

Let’s say you will have to write four pages, or even three. Try to imagine all those scenes and talks the characters will have and what will happen in those pages. Like you’re watching a movie but in your mind, and you keep repeating when you're finished once or twice. When you're done once, do it again, do it again, and when you're certain you've got it. Your thirty-minute walk ends there. Try the next day, but this time add the precious one to today’s imagination as well, or tomorrow's.

Second step:

Don’t make your imagination complex; make it simple. Imagine all those things in a simple way. Don’t add that to that and that to this. The more you complicate it, the more readers will get complicated by it and suffer substantially. (Your mind will, too, get complicated.)

How will you simplify it? Look, people don’t deal with a lot of problems at once, and mostly not all problems attack at once. One or two, make it that much. Make it simple enough for the reader to know this is the problem, and this is what’s happening. Trust me, the second you understand it yourself, then they will, too.

Third step

Don’t overthink. If you think, What if this happened and that…, the future is not in your hand. The only thing you have to do is work and see what works and what doesn’t. Try this method for twenty days. The best I can say is twenty-five days.