Cintia asked Tamera Alexander:

Hi! I'd love to read your books but I wasn't able so far, because they are not sold in my country. I just wanted to ask, how do you handle writer's block? From an aspiring writer who suffers a serious case of blocking...

Tamera Alexander Hi Cintia! Thanks for writing! First, I want you to know I'm praying for you right this minute, wherever you are in your corner of the world, and I'm asking God to guide your steps in your writing journey. Writers block is a hard thing to deal with, and something I've learned to accept—and push through—in the near decade I've been writing. When I get truly stuck, I do one of several things (or I might try them all, depending on the circumstance): 1) I ask myself if I'm writing that specific scene from the right POV (point of view). Maybe the scene needs to be told from another character's perspective and that's why it's not coming. 2) Maybe I'm trying to get my character(s) to do something that's against their character growth, and their character arc. 3) Sometimes getting up and moving around for 15-20 minutes helps. Get out. Talk a walk. Go clean something. Just get up and get moving. 4) Lastly, sometimes you just need to push through it. Just start writing. Give yourself permission to write something that's not very good. You can't rewrite something that's not on the page. Get the story on the page. Then you can go back and fix it, dress it up, layer the emotional journeys of your characters. Hope that helps! Now, what are you writing? Do share!

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