Goodreads asked L.E. Joyce:

How do you deal with writer’s block?

L.E. Joyce Writer's block isn't real. It's all in your head, the nasty little voice saying you're not good enough. We women hear it all day long and in countless different forms (not a good enough mother, not thin enough, not a good enough friend/wife/lover). My best method in dealing with it is this: "You can't fix a blank page." It's true. I've torn myself up over unwritten words too many times. My advice is to write through it. Even if you write the word, phase, or question "what's next?," over and over, something will eventually kick in and the the creative juices crash will crash through the block. Hemingway said: “The first draft of anything is shit." Anne Lamont in her book Bird by Bird dedicated a whole chapter "Shitty First Drafts," to help us struggling writer's deal with our own mental psych-outs.

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