I Have a Question

Indeed I do. I have a question for all you writers.

As I sit typing this, I have an opened document, waiting-- probably yearning-- for me to write on it. With every fiber of my soul, I want the words of my story to flow forth and make themselves known. However, everytime I try to bang away at keys, or take a sharpened pencil to a piece of looseleaf, the words run away and hide within the recesses of my mind. They're replaced by an insatiable sense of dread, and some other unpleasant emotion I can't quite put my fingers on.

Every writer, experienced and newbie alike, experiences writer's block, or that feeling of just not being able to write.

So I got to thinking.

How do you deal with writer's block, or the pre-writing jitters?