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Goodreads asked C.P. Giuliani:

How do you deal with writer’s block?

C.P. Giuliani Tea and biscuits - and freewriting.
It doesn't happen all that often, luckily, but when it does... I tend to try to soldier on through sheer stubbornness, and then, when it doesn't work, I wallow in misery for a while. But in the end, I always come back to freewriting.
My favourite source of good prompts is Judy Reeves's A Writer's Book of Days. I sit down with it, a notebook, and a pen, and scribble. Fifteen minutes to begin with, knowing that I can always go further if the whim strikes me. I try to do it every day - and, after a while, the scribblings begin to veer towards the project that got mired in the block...

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