Goodreads asked Rod Johnson:

How do you deal with writer’s block?

Rod Johnson I have a few favorite ways to deal with it. Sometimes it helps to get away from the novel I'm working on entirely. A number of websites offer writing prompts. I'll pick two or three and write a very short piece for each one. For additional prompts, I just ask my wife or daughter for something they did today and then write my take on it with some attempt at making it funny. Humor usually gets the juices flowing again. If I want to try to hack my way through my current project, I think of some event from my past and start writing it into my novel, and try to make it fit into my current spot in the plot whether it really does or not. That way I don't need to be creative, just descriptive. Once done I try to resume the actual novel as though the addition were a part of it. Then I take out what I'd inserted. (Although once the personal experience I wrote about worked in the context of the story so I left it in.) Thanks for asking!

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