Goodreads asked Dean Backus:

How do you deal with writer’s block?

Dean Backus If it's like trying to get blood from the proverbial turnip, maybe it's not the right time to be telling this particular story or working on this assignment. I'm not a journalist on deadline, so if something isn't working I can put it aside for a few, and maybe try another piece of writing and see how that goes. I had a short story I wrote during the pandemic that I liked a lot, but long story short I had to swap out a laptop, and I might have lost it unless I can recover an email I sent that had it as an attachment. The hazards of modern technology!

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