Goodreads asked F.R. Larkin:

How do you deal with writer’s block?

F.R. Larkin If you don’t believe in the boogeyman does the boogeyman exist? Please read above, to be a writer means to write. There are always a million things to write about, and there’s a million ways it could all go to shit, but if you’re sitting there worried about all the ways it could go to shit or all the things you can’t think of, that’s not writer’s block, that’s just sitting there and not writing. Stop believing this fucking thing you’re working on has got to be some fucking masterpiece and start moving your brush. Look at all the masterworks that are essentially do-overs, literally painted on top of some other fucking thing that artist put shitloads of time into and said, fuck it, this isn’t working. Go be that artist, but don’t call it art. Call it sweeping the floor and you’ll get farther. Let others or history itself decide whether or not it’s fucking art. If you’re not doing it for you, I don’t think it can be art, but if you’re not doing it at all, I know it can’t be.

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