Goodreads asked Patricia Yager Delagrange:

How do you deal with writer’s block?

Patricia Yager Delagrange I have written five books and it seems that writer's block gets worse with each new book I want to write. I know what goes through my head. I don't think I can write another book. Even though I've proved myself wrong with each new book I finish. But there's something inside most writers, some niggling doubt, telling them that it's over, that we have no more ideas that would be worth writing, that our writing days are over. However, there's also a kernel of distinct almost-hidden truth that we know we can do it again. We just have to stop procrastinating, put our butts in the chair and do it. One of my editors once told me to write a sketchy outline if that's all I had to go on. That was better than sitting in front of the computer, hands hovering above the keyboard, with a blank screen staring back at me. Just start writing. And it's always worked.

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