Goodreads asked Lucinda Holdforth:

How do you deal with writer’s block?

Lucinda Holdforth I'm not sure what writer's block really is. Sometimes I think it can be wise to stop work on a project that isn't going anywhere. Or else just take a period of rest and reading. I usually write intermittently and intensively, in blocks of a week or two. That can go on for a year or more, until I reach that (rare and) wonderful point where the various bits of writing coalesce and I can see the shape a whole book. Then I start to work very hard.

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