Goodreads asked L.E. Truscott:

How do you deal with writer’s block?

L.E. Truscott Writing cannot be forced – or perhaps it’s more accurate to say that when it is the results are often so poor that you may as well not have bothered in the first place. Of course, I can’t speak for anyone except myself. But I like to think of writer’s block as my mind’s way of telling me that either:

1) I need a break, or

2) Whatever it is I’m writing, it’s not working and I need to stop and do some thinking about the writing (which leads back to point 1).

The only solution to writer’s block that I’ve found will work is to stop trying to force the writing to happen.

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