Goodreads asked Joel Arnold:

How do you deal with writer’s block?

Joel Arnold For me, writer's block is more about procrastination and being overwhelmed by a project. You see all the work a novel will take rolling out before you, and you freeze. The way I get through it is to just try not to think about it like that, but write a page at a time. Just worry about the next page, and after that, worry about the NEXT page. Eventually, you're project will be done.

Otherwise, if it's more of a matter of me being stuck on a certain scene, then I'll just go on to a different scene, and usually when I come back to the scene I was stuck on, something will spark in my brain, and I'll be able to get on with it.

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