Goodreads asked Linda Cockburn:

How do you deal with writer’s block?

Linda Cockburn I find that getting into flow, which is the opposite of writer's block can be attained two ways. One is I torment myself with not letting myself write, building a big head of writing steam, I'll play with the characters and write a line or two, notes to myself, a piece of dialogue, and insight into the characters. But I won't start writing till I have a very strong sense of who they are and where they are going. Start too soon and it becomes a halting process. It changes, but that energy needs revving up before I let it go.

Or, if that time is not available to me I'll write, often it feels like in circles, but I'll keep writing, not going back and editing, or rewriting. That's for later. Do it too soon and I'll come back to the point of writing something new and nothing will be there. Some of it I know is crud, even while writing it, but eventually I'll grab hold of the tail of the snake and off we go.

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