Goodreads asked Tom Boniface-Webb:

How do you deal with writer’s block?

Tom Boniface-Webb It depends what is meant by 'writer's block', really. More often than not I find I can write something, whether it's any good though is another matter entirely.

I find drafting, re-drafting, leaving in a drawer for a month, re-drafting, thinking everything I've ever written is just terrible, leaving in a drawer for another month, thinking perhaps I was a bit rash before and there are some glimpses of something that is not 100% rubbish there, re-drafting, starting again, re-drafting, giving up, starting again... you get the picture... finally turns up something at least partly readable.

A key part of the process is editing, both self-editing (is this the type of thing I would want to read?) and third-party editing, are paramount to the process.

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