Goodreads asked Stephen Puleo:

How do you deal with writer’s block?

Stephen Puleo I'm pleased to say that I don't run into it often (thankfully!), but when I do, writing nonfiction helps. Reason: I'm always able to turn to a primary source - a letter, a diary entry, a government document -- as a way to get inspiration to begin a chapter or a scene. The documents themselves allow me to envision a scene and begin the writing. The other tactic that helps -- and I'm sure readers have heard this before -- is to get away from the keyboard and do something completely unrelated to writing. This lets the subconscious take over -- and the subconscious is very powerful. Doing either one of these almost always solves the rare writer's block problem I might be facing.

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