Goodreads asked Bill Mathis:

How do you deal with writer’s block?

Bill Mathis Not sure. I am diagnosed with Chronic Fatigue Syndrome and have lived with it for 20 years. I have slow downs in my ability to write, but tell myself that's from my CFS. I am an up and down writer, primarily because of my varying energy levels. Though, personal things can hold me up. I started a memoir about coming out as gay in my 60's (not THE 1960's!) and put it on ice after the killings at the Pulse Club in Orlando. I'd been told by religious people close to me some time before the massacre occurred that God says I deserved death. Some how that froze me. However, I do plan to finish it and have been pulling it out and looking at it again.

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