Goodreads asked Paul Tudor Owen:

How do you deal with writer’s block?

Paul Tudor Owen I don’t get writers’ block very often – which I think comes from my journalistic training. If I want to get from A to B in a chapter, and I’m not quite sure how, I can just get there in a pretty straightforward way, move on to the next thing, and come back to that bit later. I don’t sit there agonising over it.

But I get very distracted when I’m working at home – start watering the plants, or organising my books – there’s a cliché isn’t there that a writer’s home is very tidy because instead of sitting there working they’ve been distracting themselves every few minutes by gradually tidying the place up.

When we were living in New York we only had a small apartment, and it would have been pretty antisocial of me to try and take up all the space writing. My office was in a WeWork co-working space and it meant I could book other WeWork rooms in offices around the city. I would go from WeWork to WeWork and work in all these different offices with different views. It was a great way to see the city. It was great to feel immersed in New York in my writing and to be seeing the sights of New York out of the window as I was working.

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