Goodreads asked Bridget Allison:

How do you deal with writer’s block?

Bridget Allison The best way to deal with writer's block is to start working on something else, something altogether different from that primary piece of writing that refuses to be forced into shape. I am sometimes paralyzed by fans who want to know where the next book is. That pressure becomes an obstacle. The only way to get past it is to keep writing, to write something, anything at all, until I circle back with a fresh mind and a glad heart to the work that is most important to me. Another helpful tip my daughter gave me is to stay with the book, but to jump ahead and work on a scene you have in mind for later. It doesn't matter if most of it is drivel or completely useless in the end, if you have one fine sentence you are in love with from those pages it was worthwhile. There are books I have remembered all my life because of one sentence, crafted so lovingly by the author that it is a part of me.

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