How does writers block manifest for you?

[HexadecimaPlaceholder]

Two different variants:
1. Re-reading what I have written thus far, not getting into the flow of it, and getting distracted by something else.
2. Deleting and re-writing the same sentence or paragraph over and over again to try to find something that 'works', but coming up with nothing.

 

[WaterFish]

When my mind starts coming up with millions of reasons why my ADHD brain should look at a passing butterfly instead of writing. Forgetting my story and characters.

 

[eldrais]

Sometimes it just triggers. It happens, currently trying to think what I want to add how the next dungeon on a story I am writing unfolds. I have a theme. I am just stuck figuring out how it will transpire.

I normally just chat with others to get ideas. Honestly that is the best way to overcome writers block.

 

[Major2501]

It happens when I'm massively overstimulated, when I've got too much going on in my grown up adult life that's causing me to be a massive stresshead. It's usually down to work, running a household, attempting to have some semblance of a social life and trying to look after myself and not have a meltdown.

I will literally sit in front of my laptop with way too many ideas in my head which get stuck somewhere on the way to my fingers and comes out as a garbled, incoherent mess that makes no sense when I read it back. I then end up with a blank screen glaring at me while I end up binging some shite on telly with a cat trying to suffocate me because I haven't moved an inch in 2 hours.

 

[Kalliel]

When I'm out of ideas.
When I do have ideas though, I could dish out a thousand words per hour easily.