Goodreads asked Jeanne Felfe:

How do you deal with writer’s block?

Jeanne Felfe If I'm already working on a story and I've stalled, often doing something physical - showering, gardening, walking - will get me unstuck. I often have conversations between characters while digging in the dirt. It just works for me.

If I'm trying to think of a story to write, often I'll let the prompt (I write from story prompts at lot) settle into my brain and do just about anything other than try to force a story. I wrote a short last year that ended up winning 2nd place on the theme of touch. It was a couple of days before the due date and I had nothing, nadda, zip. I walked around the corner of my house and saw a neighbor teen girl hugging another girl and I thought, "What if?" and my story "The Silent Lie" was born. It's a highly emotional story I've dedicated to an older cousin who passed decades ago from what we now know of as Aids.

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