Goodreads asked Danny Iny:

How do you deal with writer’s block?

Danny Iny There's nothing like a deadline; that's really what it comes down to. When you know there's a deadline to submit a manuscript, that you just have to get done, then that certainly helps with writer’s block! It keeps you moving. Writing something that’s not great but something you can improve later, is better than not writing anything at all.

But I think a really important insightand this is what challenges a lot of writersis that writing is comprised of at least two different activities. One is figuring out what ideas you are trying to communicate and how those ideas fit together. And the second is choosing the words to articulate those ideas.
Those are two very different kinds of tasks, and writer's block often happens when you're trying to do them both at the same time.

And so, I try to be diligent and self-aware about whether I have a clear flow of ideas. If I do, then I sit and write. But if not, I will usually go for a walk and think and take notes on my phone about high-level outline stuff. And then, I come back and write. I try to separate those two activities out.

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