Goodreads asked Rod Williams:

How do you deal with writer’s block?

Rod Williams I'm lucky. I haven't had writer's block for the past twenty years; my bigger problem is making time for my writing. Everybody's different, but my one piece of advice for folks suffering from writer's block is to let the story (or poem, or essay) cool off for a while, get out of the house, and go somewhere to hear other people talking. Go to a bar, or a church, or a club, or a city council meeting, or whatever. And listen. People love to talk and tell stories, and by getting out of your own head for a while, you can pick up new plotlines, speech cadences, colorful anecdotes, points-of-view, etc. Writing itself is a mostly solitary endeavor, but we don't write in a vacuum. If you're dealing with writer's block, you probably just need a bit of recharging.

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