Goodreads asked Pamela Aares:

How do you deal with writer’s block?

Pamela Aares I don't really have the experience of 'writer's block'-- The question calls to mind a quote I read from Daniel Boone, the great woodsman. He was asked if he'd ever been lost in the woods. He thought for some time and then said "No. I've never been lost, but I was once befuddled for three days." Occasionally I'll find myself stuck. But I always know that the 'stuckness' is the story speaking to me, telling me to dig deeper, to spend what I call 'power time' with my characters. These are most precious moments, these moments when momentum stalls, they are like a break in time and space, an almost magical time when the power of story finds its way through to me like a stream of water winding its way through a field and bringing new life. But don't get me wrong-- these are challenging times. I've learned from experience to trust that the story and I will move forward. Walking helps, especially in nature, by the sea or in a forest. Or sometime just down my lane. Birdsong can be a powerful catalyst, an "heroic voice", as Thomas Berry once said to me.

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