Goodreads asked Ilsa J. Bick:

How do you deal with writer’s block?

Ilsa J. Bick I don't believe in writer's block. I believe that writers can get tired; that writers can procrastinate; that writers get hit with insecurities and a bad case of the green envies. But I think that if you can't seem to get the story you think you want to tell out of your head and onto paper, or if what you write is crap . . . then there's something wrong with the story. I've certainly come to dead stops in the middle of books that I thought were just fine. I've written thousands of pages and hundreds of thousands of words that I kill because not every word deserves to live. But failure to launch can become a self-fulfilling prophecy. For example, I've begun my latest wip five times, and this is after having what I thought was a good outline. But it just didn't work, and I kept coming to a dead stop roundabout the same place. So it's either muscle on or scrap and burn and start over. I have to have faith that I'll stumble over what I'm trying to say eventually and figure out what the story's supposed to be about.

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