Goodreads asked Ronald McGowan:

How do you deal with writer’s block?

Ronald McGowan The best way to deal with writer's block is to ignore it. If you try to 'deal with it' you just make it worse.
That may sound a mite flippant, but actually, I used to agonise over it and it did only make it worse.
Nowadays, if the words won't come, I do something else until they do come. I find a long walk often sorts my mind out, and passages come to me from somewhere. The trick after that is to get the down before you forget them.
The worst thing you can do is sit staring at the page -or, rather, the screen nowadays, cudgelling your brain to produce something striking and irresistible.
If you really must get something down, wax lyrical about the scenery, or a character, or an incident you intend to use. You may decide to cut what you have written in the end, but then again, you may not, and in the meantime you are clearing your brain. Why do you think there are so many long passages of description in authors like Dickens or Trollope?

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