Goodreads asked Mark Sumner:

How do you deal with writer’s block?

Mark Sumner The horrible truth is that those days when you're feeling great and the text is just flowing, and those days when you have to drag out every word with a boat hook... actually end up resulting in about the same quality of text when you look at it six weeks later. So the answer to writer's block is to just keep putting down something, no matter how wrong it feels, and see if it's not just fine once you've moved on long enough to forget which words came easy and which were carved from granite with wet noodles.

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