Goodreads asked Nikki Vale:

How do you deal with writer’s block?

Nikki Vale If I'm stuck on a story it's usually because I have other stories floating around in my head distracting me. What I do is put down the story I'm writing and start on the story that just won't get out my head and come back to the other story later. I'm not saying that would work for anyone else but that's what I did when I wrote 'The Cured.' I has started another story and the idea for 'The Cured' wouldn't get out of my head, so I put the other story aside and wrote that one instead.

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