Goodreads asked Patrick James Ryan:

How do you deal with writer’s block?

Patrick James Ryan Writer's Block eventually hits all authors. I sometimes toggle back and forth between projects. (e.g. at present I am working on a second short story collection and a mainstream detective thriller). When Writer's Block hits, I choose to take a break from the current work and pivot over to something I wrote a while back, but is not yet published to edit it. Not only do I get the writing juices flowing again, but I find sentences and paragraphs in the older work that need to be tweaked and improved. For me, that usually helps!

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