: Re: Dealing with writer's block Although I'm not that convinced with this idea but I'd like to take your advise. Can it be a good idea to skip a chapter when having writer's block?

@Shakeerah107

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That's not a question that can be answered in the abstract.
Sometimes it's so exactly the right thing to do that you look back and realize that your writer's block was your boredom with a superfluous passage, and you never do write it.
Sometimes writer's block turns out to be reluctance to tackle a passage requiring technical skills that you haven't got yet, but the passage is necessary, and in that case, skipping will achieve nothing.
Sometimes you just need to let something jell a little more. I do this by skipping to another work and circling back. Skipping ahead might also work, but I'm too afraid that vital things in that scene might affect the future scenes too much.
An additional important point with letting it jell -- you may realize that something you had thought will not work. You may need to seriously change elements of the scene to get through it. That may invalidate what you write if you skip ahead.

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