Goodreads asked Tot Taylor:

How do you deal with writer’s block?

Tot Taylor I don't usually have a problem with WRITERS BLOCK as I view writing, or putting words together, even in very long-form as more of a 'flow' event. I really only write when I have flow and feel it coming. So, I can't start at 6am and finish at 3pm like most writers seem to. It's the same process I have applied to creating music - i. e. re: sitting down at the piano. I don't even sit down unless I have something. The first 60-70 pages of 'THE STORY OF JOHN NIGHTLY' were written in one sitting like that (then 'worked'). The writing - the actual words as they appear on the page - are usually in my head while I'm walking the streets or doing something else, hoovering or something. It's always been like that. I'm lucky in that words - and music - have so often come to me fully formed. I realised as a teenager early on that what we are trying to do when we try anything creative is to 'make something happen'. If the song, or the painting, or the garden, or the cake isn't 'happening' then forget it. It's that magikal energy thing, that 'comet hit' etc, which we need to be happening when the 'fabric' comes down, that 'golden ribbon' referred to in the novel. Thank you for asking... Tot Taylor

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