Goodreads asked K. Edwin Fritz:

How do you deal with writer’s block?

K. Edwin Fritz To me the term 'writer's block' really means "My creativity is gone". And nobody on the planet is as creative as children. Why? I think it's because they do not fear rejection. To that end, one way to push through (not 'get over, btw... you can't avoid it, you *must* work through it) writer's block is to trick yourself into being creative once again. It's something we all used to do naturally as children. The best way... find a book or a website or a phone app with random prompts, then force yourself to write about those prompts for 10 or 15 minutes. Doesn't matter how good (or bad) the results are. You won't be sharing them with anyone anyway... and thus you'll have no fear. Just keep going. By the time you get to a dozen answered prompts, your creativity will have gotten a boost & your writer's block will have loosened up a bit. And if you try your own work again & it's still not gone, go back and write more silly prompts. Eventually, you'll find that balance between creativity & precision you need.

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