Goodreads asked K.D. Harp:

How do you deal with writer’s block?

K.D. Harp I'm a hardcore pantser who deeply believes in characterization over everything, even when the plot disagrees. (If people aren't acting like themselves, they just fall flat to me). The characters are often running off to places Their Author never intended them to go, but they generally know what they're doing so I just try to record the action. When it halts, (I love the spontaneity of the pantser perspective so much I hate to be truthful here), I break writer's block by going back to the outline.
It's excruciating to my personality type, but I rough in the entire romance story line, the action, and any subplots before I let the characters out to play. They go where they'd truly go, instead of where I think they should, but when they're stuck, the outline saves us all.

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