Hayot recommends that the solution to both is to keep writing .
Stuck doesn’t (always) mean STOP. Of course you will get stuck. It’s part of the very complex writing process that is the dissertation. Sometimes you get stuck on a macro-level, when you lose faith in your chapter and fear that you have to start over; other times you get stuck on a micro-level, when you feel like you can’t write at all or you just simply feel like you’re not moving forward. Hayot recommends that the solution to both is to keep writing .