Goodreads asked Nico Lee:

How do you deal with writer’s block?

Nico Lee I only write when I want to. My novel 'A Good Lie Ain't Easy' is standard novel length. 63,000 words. It took quite a while to edit, but I wrote it in one and a half weeks. When I get the desire to write it pours out of me. Can't stop it. I could lie, and say I can't imagine sitting at a desk everyday, saying I must write x amount of words by midday, but I can imagine that, as I've done that. Just not for a novel. But that's not neccesarily art. Or rather you can get art from it, but the very best feeling is when you can't stop yourself, when you're compelled to produce. If I had to write prose when I wasn't interested in writing prose? My answer would be do other stuff, eventually something will make you think, will set off the spark again. If it doesn't, then maybe it's just that part of your life is, at least for the time being, over. I work part-time doing other stuff, so I'm not relying on having to write- I'd imagine if you are, and you have deadlines, that's a whole other set of problems. Don't get me wrong, it's a set I'd gladly give up my current job for.

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