Goodreads asked S.E. Ney:

How do you deal with writer’s block?

S.E. Ney I read, I go for a walk outside (inasmuch as I can. More a hobble in my case!), I clean my pet's cage, watch a film... sometimes I just go to bed. I've found if I try and force it I end up writing a ton of rubbish I'll end up binning or -- much worse -- write myself into a corner I can't get out of. If I leave it and wait, eventually the characters tell me what they want to say and then a load comes out in a rush. Ideas come to me in all sorts of places, so having my mobile with a voice record feature is useful, but normally I just roll it around in my head, working it all out and repeating it, looking for problems and fixing them until I can get to my computer. My friends have got used to me suddenly stopping a conversation because a really good idea has come into my head. They know not to interrupt. Doesn't happen often, but it has been known. Writer's block, to me, is just my subconscious holding up a 'wait' sign while it works out the kinks. It always comes back to me eventually.

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