Goodreads asked Benjamin Radford:

How do you deal with writer’s block?

Benjamin Radford I actually rarely get writer's block, in part because of good preparation. I make an effort to save news stories (either print them out or electronically) that have some relevance to things I am writing or researching. Because of that I have dozens (or hundreds) of bits and pieces of information, leads, new ideas, and so on to work from. This mostly applies to non-fiction but to a lesser degree fiction as well. You don't really get writer's block because you have a file folder full of material to work from: If you get stumped, just open it up, look at the top clipping, figure out how it applies to the book structure, plug it in, and go!

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