Goodreads asked Christian Piatt:

How do you deal with writer’s block?

Christian Piatt I'm both blessed and cursed in this regard. Despite my constant, nagging fear that I'll run out of ideas, I never have. Now, with nine published books and four more under contract and/or underway, I'm starting to trust that my compulsion to create through words will never abandon me.

That said, sometimes, it would be a more peaceful existence if I could turn it off or attenuate. For some, writing as a daily discipline is a necessary practice. For me, it's a pressure release valve, a way to keep things, ideas, emotions, from building up to an intolerable level, and to stay connected with the rest of the world.

It sounds mobbed, but I fear sometimes that, if I stopped writing, I'd disappear or even die. It's not that I write from this fear; rather, it's simply that essential to my being. To me, having writer's block would be like waking up with crippling asthma.

But then again, I'm a compulsive creative type, so if that's not your reality, then meditate, sit in silence, walk, observe, listen. Be ready when the muse descends and trust she always will come back.

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