Goodreads asked Michele Wucker:

How do you deal with writer’s block?

Michele Wucker I used to beat myself up for starting to clean the house, rearrange papers, sort my sock drawer and the like instead of writing. But then a friend with a background in psychology completely turned it around when she corrected me. You're not procrastinating, she told me: instead, this was a ritual to get me started writing. Once I figured that out, I cleaned away which got me going writing. No more writer's block, and a really clean house. The other thing that helped was learning to take a break. When I started fostering dogs, who were very good about reminding me when I had been sitting at my desk for too long, I took long walks in Riverside Park and that's when a lot of breakthroughs happened, so that when I got back to my desk I was much more productive.

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