Goodreads asked Taryn Bashford:

How do you deal with writer’s block?

Taryn Bashford I've never had writer's block, but I have a theory as to why: when I write that first draft I write solidly for 2 or so weeks, 18 hours per day. It's called the vomit draft because I literally type-vomit the words onto the page. By working in this way, approximately 20% of the way through, the characters actually take over the action and I have trouble keeping up with them because I'm just being pulled along, telling their story as fast as possible, as it unfolds itself.

I do then have to spend several months fixing the first draft, but at that point I have the story, the characters, their goals and motivations, the start, middle and end, and 90,000 words to play with. Writer's block be gone!

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