Goodreads asked Jennifer Weiner:

How do you deal with writer’s block?

Jennifer Weiner Before I published my first novel I’d spent almost ten years as a newspaper reporter. Some of those years I worked for a very small paper where the reporters were expected to turn in more than one story a day. You could do the police round-up, head out to cover a school board meeting, work on a big Sunday piece in between, and get yanked off your beat if there was breaking news. I got used to writing a lot, every day, and I got used to the physical cues – you wake up, pack your stuff, leave the house, plant yourself in a seat in front of the keyboard, and you write. That’s how it works for me…and even if I feel like I’ve got nothing to say and I end up tossing everything I’ve written, I can’t think of a day when I haven’t been able to get anything on the page.

The other part of the answer is reading. I’m always reading – usually a novel, and I’ll always have some poetry on the bedside table, too, so I’ve got plot and beautiful language running around in my head.

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