Goodreads asked Steve Copling:

How do you deal with writer’s block?

Steve Copling I deal with writer's block by playing the "what if" game. Fiction is about conflict, and how a character deals with it. If I get to a stuck point, I start asking what if. What if this happened, what if that happen? You can approach any topic from multiple angles and create tension and conflict from the smallest things. Once I have decided on a piece of conflict-large or small- having the character deal with it generally kicks me out of the sticking point.

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