Goodreads asked Brian Kindall:

How do you deal with writer’s block?

Brian Kindall I don't really suffer from writer's block anymore, but I do get intimidated by my own big ideas for what I'm trying to create. Looking at an entire project before it's started can sometimes slow my forward momentum. Everything gains such a great weight when you're trying to write a masterpiece. It's like Flaubert's comma, where he spent all morning putting it in, and then all afternoon trying to gain the courage to take it out. I tell myself to remember that it's just a process. No one is watching. Like climbing a big mountain, it can only be done one step at a time. Mistakes can be erased, poor passages deleted. No one needs to see those first clumsy attempts. Once I remind myself of those things, the process is just fun.

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