Goodreads asked Robert Egby:

How do you deal with writer’s block?

Robert Egby Writer's block? Hemingway would have said "Let's have a cerveza." When one of those rare blocks occurs I look over my synopsis and pick a flashback or a chapter that supports the current plot. Case in point: PENTADAKTYLOS. Greg a British officer is wounded and loses his manhood. It's 17 years before, the evacuation of Greece, WWII. Unbeknown to him he does have a son. It's a story within a novel. When I was finished, I found my block had gone.

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