Goodreads asked Tarn Richardson:

How do you deal with writer’s block?

Tarn Richardson Just don't let it beat you. Just don't give it the opportunity to dig its claws into you.

Write - just write whatever comes into your head. Don't worry if what you're writing is rubbish and you know it's rubbish. You're writing. And that's all that matters. Don't even worry about tpyos (sic) or grammar. Just get the words out, get them flowing, turning that intimidating white sheet of paper black with words and then turn it over and fill that page and turn the next over and then the next and keep going and filling them until something resembling sense and style appears in your writing. And even if it doesn't I bet that they'll be something you can use in what you've just scrawled.

Another more painful technique is go for a run - or, for the less active, a decent stomp. It's amazing what billows up from the deepest recesses of the mind when the body is made to sweat a little.

Lastly, get up at 3am and write. The writer Simon Toyne gave me this neat suggestion - and it really does work. It's amazing where your brain is at at 3am in the morning and what it is capable of. (Just write the rest of the day off afterwards!)

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