: Re: Procrastination on a Crucial Scene in my Book I'm in the process of writing a book and through my plans I know I have a fairly crucial, game-changing scene coming up. I can't help but put

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I think there are two reasons you might be procrastinating on the scene:

You are afraid of doing it wrong (in that case follow Lauren Ipsum's advice).
It's boring and you don't feel like writing it.

If it's the second choice I suggest the following:

a. Remove the scene. I know it hurts. But something I realized is that progress is not how many words you write, but how many decisions you make for your story. Removing a complete scene is a very big decision. Hence an important one. (But since you said it's a crucial scene, maybe this isn't the case.)

b. Change the scene so it becomes fun/exciting to write. In the past I procrastinated on various scenes. Later I realized it was because I felt they were cliched/boring. Once I came up with a new and exciting way of writing them I couldn't stop.

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