Goodreads asked Paul H. Raymer:

How do you deal with writer’s block?

Paul H. Raymer My daughter drew me a picture of a woman's face. She is a graduate fashion designer so she knows how create carefully crafted figures. But this time she just let her fingers and her hand and her arm go: no restraint. "Just let go," she said. I have found that 'writer's block' comes from trying to restrain your writer's hand. The words are in there - on the page or on the screen. You just have to let them out. If you try to force characters to do the things that you want them to do, they will stop you one way or the other. "Just let go!"

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