Goodreads asked Sascha Haselmayer:

How do you deal with writer’s block?

Sascha Haselmayer Often, the hardest part is to find a good story, one in which all the pieces come together and where there is a true, actual insight can share. That requires a lot of research and exploring the meaning in different ways. It also took me a very long time to find my voice, after years of writing strategy and policy documents. I tackled that by spending a few minutes every day just starting to write about the story I am working on, taking different angles and starting points. This is just sketching. I also tell these stories over family meals to Julia and our daughters, trying out different ways of building the narrative. Their feedback is invaluable, there is nothing like the honesty in a teenager's reaction! After that, I find, things begin to flow. But I like to revisit these stories after a few weeks or months, and will continue to tinker with them as I get some distance and discover new angles or facts.

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