Goodreads asked Paul Boulet:

How do you deal with writer’s block?

Paul Boulet I’ve never really experienced writers’ block as much as “dissatisfaction block.” I sincerely thank William Gibson so is credited as saying, “You must learn to overcome your very natural and appropriate revulsion for your own work.” I find this very freeing when at the stage where I’m pouring a concept from head to keyboard. That flows nicely into the phase where I experience the revulsion of endless iterative rewrites. Somewhere thereafter lies the overcoming stage when I surmount the block and move on to the next passage. It seems like I always have concepts offering plenty of new opportunities to overcome.

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