Tip of the Day: Detouring Around Writer's Block

I knew this tip already, and you probably did too, but yesterday I wasted too much time websurfing and waiting for inspiration while not wanting to remember it. If stuck at a sentence near the beginning, just mark it as pending and move on. The next sentence is too hard, too? Repeat and move on. Eventually a sentence is reached that is so trivial and basic that it's doable. That seems to loosen the block. What's more, when I go back to the pending sentence(s) after finishing the text, they are much easier to wrestle with after I have been immersed in the text and the subject.

Writers know this, too. One writers' version of the tip is "Start with the second paragraph [or the second chapter]."