Goodreads asked Shannon Haddock:

How do you deal with writer’s block?

Shannon Haddock I walk away from that story for a while. Sometimes I come back to it months later and pick up like I never left it; sometimes I realize I need to rewrite the whole thing in a different pov or with a different length in mind; sometimes I abandon it indefinitely because I realize that I, at least at present, don't have the skill to pull off what I'm trying to do; sometimes I just decide that it was an alternate leg of the trousers of time and abandon it completely. Recognizing when it's the last one is very hard, and I usually have gotten writer's block several times in a story before I realize that there's nothing I can do to make it work.

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