Goodreads asked Walt Odets:

How do you deal with writer’s block?

Walt Odets As a non-fiction writer, I've had little experience with writer's block, because I'm not "making things up." In preparing for a book, I sort out hundreds of notes into subject folders, and then organize the folders into a tentative order, which serves as a rough outline. "Out of the Shadows: Reimagining Gay Men's Lives" is the product of 82 note folders organized in eight chapters, plus an introduction and afterword. If I'm having trouble moving from folder to folder, or have difficulty finding an order within a folder, it is probably because I don't completely understand the issue I'm writing about. So I sit in front of the computer and think it through again. And again. And again!

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