Writing about it - approach to writer’s block

You know that feeling when you feel like you’re gonna sneeze but then it never comes out? I sometimes feel like that with blog posts. I think I have a post coming out of me so I sit down to start writing. But nothing coherent comes out. I recently joined a new writer group and we had a small discussion about this. What I wrote there, verbatim: When I run into a situation where I have a vague idea but writing it doesn't quite happen right away, I usually take my notebook and go to a pub to write about it (rather than write it) and that often helps move forward. This happens to me more often than I’d wish. It’s unfortunate because when I sit down to write, I always hope it’ll be a smooth, flow-like state where my fingers dance on the keyboard, instructing letters to join the choreography on the screen, ending in something profound and beautiful. When it happens, some kind of security mechanism inside me goes into effect. Alarms start to blare internally: “this thing is stuck, let’s not…