Fluency.

Writer's Block is just part of writing. Everyone gets it at some point or another, I assume. So I've been trying out this new writing method, at the suggestion of Stephanie Morrill over at the Go Teen Writers blog, where you jump to a point in your story you know you can write about when you've hit a wall. It's my goal to just keep writing, not stop, even if it means I have to jump around a little bit in the process.

Also, I learned that the first draft of the novel doesn't have to be the final draft. The reason I hardly made any progress before is because I kept doing back and redoing paragraphs I already wrote and not moving forward to make new things happen. So now, instead of going back and rereading to edit, I push forward and tell myself, Toni, you can come back to that later. Write the story first. Writing with that mindset transformed and gave life to my words because I write what flows, not what I force to fit what's already been written.