Goodreads asked Tomas K.L. Martin:

How do you deal with writer’s block?

Tomas K.L. Martin Writer's block can be handled in three manners, and quite frankly three alone:

1. If you are already underway with a work, follow Ernest Hemingway's advice and stop writing for the day before you finish your "thought." Don't run your ideas all the way through for the day. In following this advice, you already have a point of entry and momentum with which to pick right back up in the morning. To be honest, this has proven so effective, that I often can't sleep; I'm too anxious to get up and get started. I just want to be awake and working. It's like a five year-old trying to fall asleep on Christmas Eve.

2. Do absolutely nothing; don't even think about writing. No joke. Writers are professional "observers." If you are being a writer, but not a self-conscious one desperately looking for "inspiration," you will eventually see something, and then it will all come to you like Marcel Proust and his tea and a Madeleine. And when that great thought comes to you, rush for pen and paper, not a computer, and start writing everything that is flashing before you. I guarantee you won't be able to keep up with the rush of ideas, narratological perspective, characters, possibilities....

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3. Do everything. Where's the harm in entertaining every idea that comes to you? Think of it as photography in the digital age. When you go on vacation, you snap hundreds of photos with your ipone, then you delete all but the best and make an album out of it, no? Write down every idea, any at all: good, bad and the ugly. Eventually something will stick, you'll be pleased with it, enamored with the fact that you came up with it, and you'll be off...

Hope that helps!

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