Goodreads asked Eddie Pittman:

How do you deal with writer’s block?

Eddie Pittman The advice I was given by my creative writing professor in college, and I live by it. "We're writers, this is our job. Like any job, there are days we don't want to work or just can't do it. But then there are days where we have to force ourselves."

I find that after going through a "forced" writing day or two, the block goes away pretty quickly. I also try and do different phases at different times. For me, editing is NOT my favorite by any means, but the first round of editing is my most fun because I am an underwriter. Indeed, the first draft of Missing Among the Stars was around 80K words, and after adding in some comments from beta readers and gamma readers, it ballooned to 110K words.

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