Goodreads asked A.E. Decker:

How do you deal with writer’s block?

A.E. Decker Truthfully, I've never really suffered from it. I generally don't write unless I know the ending of the story, and so I always have an idea where I'm heading. I do frequently suffer from what I call the "skip to dessert" syndrome, where I take a long time writing a slower, more connecting scene because I know there's a more exciting sequence coming up that I really want to write. Also, "word amnesia" syndrome, where I know there's a word I want to use, but for the moment it's completely escaping me.

The solution? To just put down words anyway. That's was revisions are for--to clean up previous messes!

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