Goodreads asked Nicole Galland:

How do you deal with writer’s block?

Nicole Galland I often have terrible writers block, and I've found it helps to walk away from what you're doing, and instead do something that (a) uses a completely different part of your brain and/or (b) requires physical exertion. For me, walking or yoga help, as does anything involving music, especially choral singing (more on that in a moment) and sewing or crocheting. Or (c) if you feel that you MUST be writing, just write something else!

Geraldine Brooks once cured me of writer's block by telling me to watch Barton Fink. I highly recommend this.

Choral singing: I just recently had the opportunity to sing in a chorus, which I'd had no experience of. I found that in every possible way, the experience was the opposite extreme of writing, and just like a good counter-pose in yoga, it helped immensely. It required me to be extremely present in my body, to get out of my intellectual head, to pay attention to my surroundings, to focus outward rather than inward, and to give myself over to the whole, instead of having to play Solitary God. My job was to blend instead of being distinctive. It's also a physically invigorating activity when you do it right. It felt fantastic. And it neutralized so many of the things that make writing a challenge for me.

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