Goodreads asked Laura E. Reeve:

How do you deal with writer’s block?

Laura E. Reeve I've had two types of writer's block: psychological and health-based. Psychological is easier because I just have to get to the root cause. Once I do that, I can deal with the fear, anger, boredom, or the wrong way the plot or character's gone (yes, my mind can block me as a way to tell me the book is just not working). Sometimes I have to change the way I work for a while. Eventually, something works.

Some of my "writer's block" episodes have been health-based. For many years, I was prescribed medication for migraines that fuzzed up my brain, destroyed my focus, and made me forgetful. It took years for me to identify that these were medication problems and to find better ways to control the migraines. Then there's the major surgeries like the back fusion and lobectomy due to lung cancer (no, I've never smoked). When I'm facing cancer, I drop every activity that isn't focused on healing my body--thus, I couldn't write for almost a year. Now there's another cancer scare down the road and if there's surgery and treatments, I'll get through it but I may stop writing... Once my body is healed, I'll make enough room in my head to write.

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