Goodreads asked Bill Schutt:

How do you deal with writer’s block?

Bill Schutt I've been lucky in that regard, and it's never happened to me while while writing non-fiction (in which chapters are pretty well mapped out before I write them). But if I do get stuck on something in a novel I can usually get past it by starting to write dialogue for the scene in question. Let's say it's a scene about a helicopter approaching a mountain. I'd start with a conversation between the pilot and copilot. Things seem to follow pretty naturally after that, in this case as we approach the mountain through their eyes.

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