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Goodreads asked Christopher C. Starr:

How do you deal with writer’s block?

Christopher C. Starr My experience with writer's block wasn't ever about not being able to write; i was always about needing to say something that I didn't want to say. It was about honesty for me. So the quickest cure for it was just writing the thing I didn't want to write and accepting it.

Then I faced writer's block for a year on my current book. I couldn't hear anything, I couldn't see any scenes, I had no idea where the story needed to go. I had nothing. So that is what I wrote: I wrote Michael the Archangel being lost, not hearing the Father, not seeing where he was supposed to go. Leaning into that feeling, into Michael's perspective, made the story begin to happen. It's still hard, to be honest, but it's moving.

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