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Goodreads asked Stephen Taylor:

How do you deal with writer’s block?

Stephen Taylor For each novel, I have a document in Word called "Conceptualisation." It has all my original thoughts, possible storylines, etc. This forms the skeleton of the novel. The next step is research - this is a chore but it also opens up other storylines, and I add them to this document, even though they may not yet be relevant to the storyline I have reached. If I get stuck, this is where I go for new ideas. The knack is to keep the document ahead of the writing.

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