How do you get over Writer’s Block?

A sudden stop to the writing flow is an issue so common, you’d think there’d be a thousand different remedies to it by now. There are the classics, of course. Read something else; just freewrite; take a break and come back to it “with fresh eyes.”

Yet, writer’s block remains one of the literary world’s most daunting and enigmatic problems. How do you beat it? Can it be avoided at all? What even is it?

In the inaugural episode of Rough Draft, Rachel & Sarim attempt to break the block.