Editing Writer's block (section)

===Mind mapping===
{{Main article|Mind mapping}}
[[Mind mapping]] is suggested as another potential solution to writer's block.<ref name=Huston/> The technique involves writing a stream of consciousness on a horizontal piece of paper and connecting any similar or linked thoughts. This exercise is intended to help a writer suffering from writer's block to bypass the analytical or critical functioning of their brain and access the creative functioning more directly, stimulating the flow of ideas.<ref name=Huston/> Other techniques similar to clustering and mind mapping are the writing of notes on cards in a [[card file]],<ref>{{cite journal |last=Lopeke |first=Linda |date=December 1984 |title=Breaking through writer's block |journal=ACM SIGDOC Asterisk Journal of Computer Documentation |volume=10 |issue=4 |pages=22–24 |doi=10.1145/1111174.1111177 |s2cid=29780705 |doi-access=}}</ref><ref>{{cite book |last=Boice |first=Robert |date=1985 |chapter=Psychotherapies for writing blocks |editor-last=Rose |editor-first=Mike |title=When a Writer Can't Write: Studies in Writer's Block and Other Composing-Process Problems |series=Perspectives in Writing Research |location=New York |publisher=[[Guilford Press]] |pages=182–218 ([https://archive.org/details/whenwritercantwr0000unse/page/202 202]) |isbn=0898622514 |oclc=11211866 |chapter-url=https://archive.org/details/whenwritercantwr0000unse/page/182 |chapter-url-access=registration}}</ref> and nonlinear electronic writing using [[hypertext]].<ref>{{cite journal |last=Kish |first=Judith Mara |date=Fall 2000 |title=Breaking the block: basic writers in the electronic classroom |journal=Journal of Basic Writing |volume=19 |issue=2 |pages=141–159 (148) |doi=10.37514/JBW-J.2000.19.2.08 |jstor=43741068 |quote=It is through the use of hypertext itself and an understanding of hypertext theories that instructors can begin to help students to use computers to break through writing difficulties such as writer's block. |doi-access=free }}</ref>