Goodreads asked Irene Cooper:

How do you deal with writer’s block?

Irene Cooper I write copy as well as literary stuff, so...always writing, really. Sometimes I have nothing to say. Then I read, or stare. I got a late start, by many standards, and frequently had to wedge the writing in between other life tasks. Which is not to say that when I got the time, I produced nothing but gold, far from it. But I wrote something I could work with later—an essay that really wanted to be a poem, a little scene that could grow into a story. When I think of writer's block, I imagine a lot of internal noise around, Is it good? The better questions are, are you working, are you thinking, are you reading, are you allowing your imagination some breathing room?

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