Goodreads asked Jeremy McLean:

How do you deal with writer’s block?

Jeremy McLean I try to keep with a daily, weekly, and monthly word count, and stick with them. If I don't make the daily goal, I try to make up for it with the weekly, and so on. Just keep writing and if a particular part isn't up to snuff, come back to it later and you'll probably have a solution.

If I'm stuck at a particular moment in the story where I don't know what to do with the characters, I ponder on it and it alone. This can take practice to focus on something, but just sitting down and thinking over a problem in your head, thinking "what would my characters do here?" helps.

I also have friends who are good at bouncing ideas off of, and I'm not at all ashamed to admit that several ideas were collaborative, and I wouldn't have been able to come up with them on my own.

If you have writers block, talk with other creative people, and they may be able to help you out of it, remember your fans are waiting to be inspired by you, and stick to your goals no matter what. Just write, get past the bad stuff, and come back and fix it later.

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