Goodreads asked R.J. Dearden:

How do you deal with writer’s block?

R.J. Dearden There's no such thing as "writer's block" ... I mean I've never seen it as a condition in a medical journal. Not a pretty analogy but think of the so called blockage as "writer's constipation." You just need to eat a tin or two of the proverbial prunes until ...ahem .. the problem is flushed out of your system. Try getting in a car and driving down the motorway with a voice recorder on and talk into that until you have workshopped a problem away. Also, if you can't write it's probably because your characters aren't talking to you which means (sorry) they're not good characters. So go back to your characterisation until they won't shut up. You'll find the characters do the heavy lifting from this point on, relieving the pressure from you the writer. Of course all this is nuts but hey ho ... many writers will know what I'm talking about.

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