Tick Tock, damned clock: Deadline and writer's block

Deadlines are a part of the writing life. They are unavoidable. 

But when you combine writer's block with a deadline, you really feel as if your life sucks. You do everything to make your mind get back into your story, the world you created. You go to Starbucks. You put on a funky outfit. You wash dishes, you take a nap. 

NOTHING. 

I want to finish this book before I slip my satin cap over my Afro tonight. 

Less than 2,000 words to go. 

This is the problem with being a pantser!  

Simply put, a plotter is someone who plans out their novel before they write it. A pantser is someone who, “flies by the seat of their pants,” meaning they don’t plan out anything, or plan very little. Some people, like me, call themselves “plantsers,” which means they’re in a little of both. In reality, most people are plantsers, but some tend to lean heavily to one side.