Goodreads asked Rajat Narula:

How do you deal with writer’s block?

Rajat Narula I have found that having an outline of the story at the outset, helps with not getting into a writer's block . If you know broadly, where the story is going to go, you don't come to a situation where you have no idea what happens next. What does happen to me, however, is that I get into a situation where I realize that a sequence or a scene doesn't work because it is unrealistic. But that scene (or the action in that scene) is important for the story. I struggle with that. To give you an example, in 'The Jasmine Bloom', there is a scene, where the police catches Sunil red-handed in the midst of his violent attack on Ritu. Now, it is not realistic to expect that in Delhi, a police surveillance van would pick up that violence happening inside a home. However, it was important for the story for that to happen. I struggled for days wondering how was I going to make it happen, with both the main characters engrossed in the fight without an access to a phone. I left that link hanging and moved on and wrote the next chapter and then the next. A few chapters later, the solution struck me. It was simple. and yet clever. So another technique of dealing with writer's block (if you reach an impasse on a certain sequence or scene) is to move ahead and sooner or latter, a solution, presents itself to you.

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