Goodreads asked Audrey Kalman:

How do you deal with writer’s block?

Audrey Kalman I find the best antidote to writer's block is to write every day. I don't require myself to write something good every day, or even something I'll share. I try to write first thing in the morning, for 20-40 minutes. Often I'll use a prompt. I find my prompts in all kinds of places--it may be a fragment of a poem, a line from a book I'm reading, or even a random sequence of words from the cookbooks on my shelf. Giving myself permission to PLAY and have fun really helps prevent block.

Of course, block does rear its ugly head when I'm trying to finish something and feel stuck. In that case, taking time away from what I'm stuck on, whether to work on something else or to take a walk, brush the cats, or call a friend, often lets my subconscious go to work on the problem in a way that my conscious mind can't.

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