Goodreads asked Andrew Dickson:

How do you deal with writer’s block?

Andrew Dickson Deadlines usually help! I trained as a journalist so I'm used to writing under pressure. Writing Worlds Elsewhere was somewhat different because the writing needed to be denser and more textured, but it was a useful discipline just to get on with it every day, and have a target (I aimed for 1000 words a day if I could). Most days you hate it, occasionally you love it, some days you feel like you haven't a single interesting thing to say or can't remember a single adjective ... You just have to keep doing it. A playwright I once interviewed, who suffered from terrible block for a few years, said that you should never take your ability to write for granted -- you have to work at it, exercise it like a muscle.

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