Anybody I've ever spoken to who knew anything about writing (that is, my creative writing professors at school, who are all--I think--published writers themselves) told me that you should write every day even if you don't know what to write about. "Writing" can be defined as simply sitting at a desk with a pen in your hand, staring at a blank piece of paper, although the general idea is actually to produce something, whether it's worth keeping or not.
Generally, I write a scene even if I don't have all the details figured out yet, that way once I do figure them out and go back to rewrite, I already have a place to start from. If that makes any sense.
Like, I recently wrote a scene between two characters, and I know now that I will probably be going back to write it all over again, because the first version turned out slightly vulgar and I decided later I didn't like it that way. And I decided after I wrote it that it didn't fit their relationship or their personalities. At some point I realized that there was a lot of weird, dark, sexual stuff going on under the surface in this story, and it would probably be best if it stayed under the surface--that was more in line with the character of the story.
Ok, so what was I talking about again? ;)
Anyway, I hope that makes sense.
