Goodreads asked Jared Morrison:

How do you deal with writer’s block?

Jared Morrison ......is it bad to say that I've never really had "writer's block"? I've had plenty of days where I didn't want to write, sure, or plenty more days where I didn't know what to write. But I firmly believe that's where so much of the magic happens. The best days are when the story or the characters tell *me* how it's going to go, and not the other way around. How *would* I deal with writer's block? I'd sit there and pound the keys anyway. Five hundred words, minimum, without fail, without negotiation. "Write for the wastebasket," I once heard. But more often than not, there's gold in that refuse.

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