Goodreads asked Affinity Konar:

How do you deal with writer’s block?

Affinity Konar I'll often write a letter to a friend when I'm stuck and need to write. Part of a "block" is pressure, a panic that feeds panic about not being able to produce. By writing casually to someone I love, I often find that I'm able to drain the anxiety from the process--words become friendly again. Even when you are writing something that needs to be treated with the utmost gravity, the creative process requires something that feels like a sense of play. This is true for me, at least.
Meditation, and the way of Jodorowsky have also been supremely helpful to me, in both life and writing-life.
When I am at my bottom, I tend to return to what I loved most in childhood--there is nothing like watching a Jim Henson production to return me to a feeling that things may still be possible.

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