Goodreads asked Ivan Thompson:

How do you deal with writer’s block?

Ivan Thompson That's a good one. There are times that I have been sidelined for months. I think for me the accountability network that I set up was very important. I had sent out rough drafts to a lot of people. That served as a partial forcing function. Putting up pictures of the Tuskegee Airmen, going to Tuskegee Airmen chapter meetings to see living Tuskegee Airmen, pushed me because they were the partial inspiration for this book. Finally there was sense of urgency that I felt was divinely inspired and I prayed for the push that I needed to respond to the divine urgency that I felt within. A few practical notes: 1) I locked myself away sometime 12-14 hours at a time, turned off the phone, sent word to my family that I wasn't taking calls because I was writing a book, 2) I stopped trying to write a bit then polish a bit, just write--polish and edit later, just create and let it flow. These practical tips from my editor Latoya Rosario

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