Goodreads asked Kevin Wright:

How do you deal with writer’s block?

Kevin Wright I usually find that writer's block is a sort of symptom of me not doing enough prep work with regards to a character and/or the setting.

With a character, it's sometimes that I don't know that character well enough to know what he/she would do in a given situation. Fleshing out the character's history, along with physical makeup, social ties and any other information I can drum up will give me insight into what that character would do in given jam.

The same goes with a setting. If I'm stuck, sometimes going into my world-building scheme and fleshing out more of the history, geography, or whatever will open up venues and choices for my characters that I hadn't seen before. I find often that the act of drawing a map of the region that my story takes place in will get me unstuck from writer's block. The map will also give insight into the history of the land along with economic considerations. This will often give me enough information to know where I the story needs to go.

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