Goodreads asked Mason Dakota:

How do you deal with writer’s block?

Mason Dakota Like any writer, I go through seasons of ups and downs fighting writer's block. I can sometimes predict when it is coming so I'll cram as much material in as I can before I feel it set in. Breaking it has always taken different things for me, but what usually helps is that I read a book or watch a movie. It has to be a certain kind of book or movie. For a book, it has to be a really good book, something that excited me or caught me off guard that inspired me. For a movie, it has to be something I've never seen before and it has to be either really good or really bad. If it's good it inspires me to write something just as good, but if it is bad it inspires me with the desire to put better content out there than what I just saw. It makes me think, "Wow if someone thought this was good enough to make a movie, then what's my excuse? I need to put something better out there than this!" One of those two ways usually help.

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