Goodreads asked Tracy M. Joyce:

How do you deal with writer’s block?

Tracy M. Joyce Writer's block: The only way through it is to write. Sounds crazy, but if you never pick up your pen or sit at your keyboard and just keep telling yourself that you don't know what to write then you'll never get anywhere. At times I will be at a loss about a direction to take with a scene or my characters or simply not sure if something is working. When this happens I just keep writing and trying different ideas. I wrote three versions of the beginning of my next book and didn't like any of them. Finally I printed them off, and highlighted the bits I liked in each, sometimes only a paragraph or a line here and there, and combined them into another version that worked. Persevere.

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