Goodreads asked Sheena Lambert:

How do you deal with writer’s block?

Sheena Lambert I have 3 ways to deal with writer's block.

If it's a small, plotting problem, I engage in some mind-numbing activity like ironing, or a treadmill work-out and usually the solution presents itself while my mind is free to wander.

If it's a bigger issue, I find that it helps to take a break from writing for a few days, and spending that time reading instead. Reading time is never time wasted for a writer.

But if whatever I am working on is simply not working at all, then the best advice I have is to try writing something completely different. This is why I like to have two, very different, writing projects on-the-go concurrently. In my case, it is most likely to be a play and a novel, but it might also be a short story or a screenplay. If one just isn't working for me, I'll change tack and write the other. I find that the very different approach required for plays and prose mean that the problems I'm experiencing with one don't usually leak into the other.

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