Goodreads asked Gregory Adams:

How do you deal with writer’s block?

Gregory Adams I've found that reading is the most reliable way to catch some inspiration, especially something by an author who takes chances. I'll sometimes go back and reread the first few pages of Don Delio's Underworld for the jolt it provides. Or Stephen King's The Mist, which is one of the most intense pressure-cookers I've ever read. For the most part, I get blocked when I'm trying to bulldoze through a particular story or passage and often all it takes is switching to another section or even another story altogether to get the gear turning. I call this Barton Fink-ing as the Coen brothers wrote and directed that film while hung up on Miller's Crossing. So great things can come from frustration as long as you keep working.

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