General; The Wall

I won't normally do this, make more than one post a day, but I just had a conversation with my friend and I thought it was worth noting. Funny that this would happen just after I hit The Wall, but there you go.

He told me how when he writes he'll start, then he'll hit a wall, get discouraged, and stop. He'll go back and look at the story, but he never gets further than that wall. My advice to him was to stop planning. If it's not working, so you try something new. Push through and get past that wall, doesn't matter how you do it, so long as you get past. Only once you're on the other side do you look back and figure out what worked and what didn't. If something isn't how you like it, you change it, but first you get past that wall.

Here's what I told him:

You reach a wall, you do something to get past it. You climb, and if that doesn't work, you dig. You do not stop to look at the wall. The more you look at the wall the bigger and longer and thicker it's going to get and you'll start thinking you can't get past that wall anymore.