Goodreads asked Niels Saunders:

How do you deal with writer’s block?

Niels Saunders I only suffer from writer's block when I've taken the story in the wrong direction. For me, writer's block is an overwhelming sense of pointlessness. I used to misdiagnose it as self-doubt but I've lately become better at recognising it. What I have to do is rewind what I've written and try to pinpoint the moment where something went wrong. It's normally because I've forced a character to do something they don't want to do. Sometimes it's not clear what the solution is so I experiment or take a break and mull over the story and my character's motivations until I figure it out.

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