Goodreads asked Matt Nagin:

How do you deal with writer’s block?

Matt Nagin Keeping a regular writing practice can help with writer's block. Also, giving yourself page quotas. Writer's block in my opinion is usually based in fear--fear of completing projects, fear of how others will respond to your work, or fear about what your writing reveals about yourself. Give yourself permission to write a bad draft; a crazy draft; a draft you don't like...with the knowledge you can always revise and your writer's block should go away....particularly if you have a regular writing practice.

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