Goodreads asked Mandy Stadtmiller:

How do you deal with writer’s block?

Mandy Stadtmiller I force myself to write. I ask friends to threaten me. I tell them to text me things like, "I won't ever speak to you again if you don't give me 800 words in the next hour." Sometimes that doesn't work because I don't believe them. So I find other friends to do it until I finally feel cowed enough into writing. Sometimes it's 4 a.m., and I can't reach anyone. So I just force myself to write. Sometimes what I write is, "I'm a piece of shit and untalented and am destined to fail." It gets deleted eventually, but hey that's 12 words right there. It's writing! Sometimes you just have to write through whatever the hell you're experiencing, and it's not always pretty. But action is a glorious thing.

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