Goodreads asked S.M. Sigerson:

How do you deal with writer’s block?

S.M. Sigerson I've never suffered from writer's block myself. However, from helping some others with theirs, it seems to me to tend to stem from some past emotional experience which told you not to write; or made you afraid you might write something that is not good enough, not the right answer, etc.

It doesn't matter if the first thing you write is all wrong. The main thing is to get it out. Just spit it out, in any form at all, just to get started. You can always go back & find better ways of saying it later. The main thing is not to self-censor. Especially not before you've even written it! Great writing is not written ... It's re-written!

A friend of mine was greatly helped with his by concentrating on writing poetry for a while: because he knew that in poetry there are no right or wrong answers.

But generally I'd say don't worry too much about writer's block. It doesn't mean you're not a good or even potentially great writer. Henry Miller said that, after first deciding to be a writer, for months he sat staring at paper & pen for hours, without inditing a single word. (And the rest is history...)

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