Goodreads asked Hemanth Kumar Bathala:

How do you deal with writer’s block?

Hemanth Kumar Bathala I simply sit and write. Write something that comes to mind. It can be anything. It can be as simple as “How are you?”! For e.g., I wrote this – the next 4/5 sentences I wrote below are as they came to my mind in that order:

(1st Person:) "How are you?" (The 2nd person answering as:) "Not bad."

"Why 'not bad'? Can't you say something positive?"

"Not Bad is positive!"

"Positive? How?"

Now that 2nd person explains his situation (what happened to him, a flashback) – how bad it is that he saying ‘Not Bad’ is a Big positive! What he explains can be a big Comedy - Comedy in Tragedy – that is I can write a tragedy or better tragedies, a series of, which the reader receives as a comedy! - the which tragedy/comedy can span a chapter to a few chapters!

Or it can be the base of my entire novel itself!

So, Now you see, by simply sitting and writing whatever comes to my mind I'm set to write a whole novel! :)

And you know what? - This is ‘actually’ going to be the base of my 8th Sequel Novel 'Land of 7 - Being "Not Bad"'! Or 'Land of 7 - How Bad Things Can Go' Or 'Land of 7 - Untitled' - I can name this later. Thank you for asking this question and I in reply to this, when actually I'd a writer's block, now have a book in hand! :)

The trick here is to do above - just sit and write! But that is a hard time for me too - to do just that - sit and write; mind says procrastinate! So it's not as simple as that. But all I need to do to overcome a Writer's block is the above.

Hope it helps. :)

- Hemanth Kumar Bathala (Author - 'Land of 7' A Fantasy, Romance, Young Adult Novel)

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