Goodreads asked Horton Deakins:

How do you deal with writer’s block?

Horton Deakins If the creative juices dry up, I simply return to reviewing and improving my existing passages. Often that provides the spark I need to keep going. I always start with that, anyway, reading first silently and then rereading out loud. I've found more problems by reading aloud than any other way. Often it's not spelling or grammar but the voice of the speaker that is amiss. It might be that the character is doing something as simple as speaking with contractions when that character never does that anywhere else. But more to the point of writer's block, I never solve it by daydreaming in front of the computer. If daydreaming ever works for me, it's in the shower or while I'm driving--circumstances where I can't write anything down.

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