Goodreads asked Bill Smoot:

How do you deal with writer’s block?

Bill Smoot Fortunately, I've never experienced writer's block. Though many years ago, I heard the late fiction writer Leonard Michaels answered this question in a way that made a lot of sense to me. He said he would try to do something--anything--that he could be accomplished. Wash the dishes, mow the grass, bill some bills...anything. I think his idea was that if you could be unblocked in something simple, it might spill over into one's writing.

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