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Goodreads asked Patrick Heffernan:

How do you deal with writer’s block?

Patrick Heffernan Writer's block is a curse but also a blessing. It's killed some of my stories along the way and killed them ugly. But maybe it's a form of Darwinism. I just published my fifth novel and the sixth will be published in a few months, but there are probably a couple dozen permanently in the graveyard in a Potter's Field under a headstone that says WRITER'S BLOCK KILLED THEM! BEWARE! or some shit like that. But maybe those stories deserved exactly that fate.

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