Goodreads asked Delaney Green:

How do you deal with writer’s block?

Delaney Green I don't get writer's block, although I do get mentally weary after I write for eight or nine hours, so I usually have to stop and rest my brain. But when I sit down to write, words are there. Always. I think the sheer act of picking up a pen and putting it to paper SUMMONS words. As far as JEM is concerned, the entire saga of seven books came loud and clear and strong. Jem starts out as a child, but I saw her story from the beginning clear through to the end. I WILL say that sometimes I get to a point in the story where I can feel that it needs to bubble away on its own in my unconscious for a while, so then I work on something else: a story, a poem, my garden, my house. In addition, I've got another book in another genre that I'd really like to get to soon. (Remember the King under a spell in "Once Upon a Mattress" who can't talk? The spell gets broken, and somebody says "THE KING TALKS!" The King says, "And I've got a lot to say!" I didn't give myself time to write for many years, but now that my dry spell is done, I'VE got a lot to say.)

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