Goodreads asked Elexis Bell:

How do you deal with writer’s block?

Elexis Bell It really depends. Most of the time, I just do something physical and think my way through it while getting my blood pumping. My job is actually pretty good for this. It's very repetitive physical work, so my mind is active and able to wander.
My current WIP, The Regonia Chronicles, is a bit different though. A couple of years ago, I reached a point where it was clearly going to be two books instead of one (standalones are kinda my thing), and I had made the big bad guy so big that I had no idea how the humans and Regonians were ever going to stand a chance.
Every scenario spelled a complete and total wipe-out of all their forces, no matter what. Some even spelled cataclysmic genocide.
That's the trouble with making really big bad guys.
As the writer, you have to figure out how to at least give your main characters a fighting chance. Even if they don't win, they need to stand some chance, otherwise it's just depressing and boring.
So, I set it aside and wrote something else while I tried to figure out what to do to put them on... *almost* equal grounds with the big bad guy.
When I figured it out, I then had to go back through what I'd written, add some things, restructure other things, and lay all the groundwork for the next book. And, as it turns out, the next book after that.

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