Goodreads asked Lea Page:

How do you deal with writer’s block?

Lea Page I tend to work in blocks-- perhaps that is left over from our home schooling days. When I am writing, I give myself a daily word quota. I set it as low as I need to go so that I can meet it every day. My highest has been 500. My lowest so far is 150. On good days, I exceed the quota, sometimes wildly, but on bad days, I claw my way through and call it good. And every once in a while, I just get tired of it all and so I stop for a while and do something else: read, knit, etc. Whenever I finish a draft, I am always convinced that I will never write anything ever again. I am not one of those people with a million stories crowding my head, waiting to be told. I only know what I have to say after I have written it. So for me, I have to maintain a practice of sitting down to write. I have done it enough now that I know this. And because I do sit down regularly, something always comes. So far, anyway. :D

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