Goodreads asked Nesly Clerge:

How do you deal with writer’s block?

Nesly Clerge I don’t experience writer’s block. I start with a theme that motivates me, and one or more characters, and write about them, until the draft story feels complete. If you know how you want your story to end, all you have to do is figure out what needs to happen to get you there. It helps to know all you can about your main and supporting characters, not that they won’t reveal things to you as you write about them. Story develops through the characters, their desires, their conflicts and deterrents, and how they deal with them, or don’t. No author needs to have writer’s block. If you feel stuck while working on the story, or before you start, develop a profile in a separate document, about one or more characters, as though you’re writing about them to a friend. The second best way to deal with writer’s block is work on a draft, get it done—no matter how unrefined it may be, and then revise it until it’s ready for readers. The very best way is to not believe in writer’s block. Fear of failure or success, maybe, but not a block that prevents you from putting something down.

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