What do you do when you encounter writer’s block?  I can sometimes just walk away from my writing for awhile and inspiration will return to me after spending time focusing on something else for a while; however, sometimes I have to go write something completely different entirely.  I often find that during my day I will overhear a conversation or think of or see a characteristic in someone that I want to include in one of my characters.  I try to write these things down as soon as I think of them or see them, but if for some reason I can’t it is almost like they stay trapped in the back of my mind not allowing anything else to come out until I write them down.  (Which is really unfortunate when I am trying to work at my real job.)  At other times, I will start writing a scene and then realize that it doesn’t flow well with the rest of the storyline, but it is still a good scene, so I will save it as an idea for another installment.  What I hate is when I loose focus on the story that I am trying to write because I am so focused on the scene that I have had to remove and just have to finish writing it or decide which future character the scene would best fit with.  Then there are just those times when nothing will come to me at all, so I will read books I have stored on my Kindle, watch tv or movies, or simply focus on my other creative pursuits outside of writing to give my brain a rest.  When all else fails I eat chocolate.