Goodreads asked David Castleton:

How do you deal with writer’s block?

David Castleton This is an issue I'm dealing with now! I didn't really have writer's block with my last book, as the first draft just seemed to flood out of me, but I'm struggling a tiny bit with the one I'm writing at the moment. I think it's partly because promoting my recently published book, 'The Standing Water', is taking up a lot of headspace. One technique I do find useful is just saying to myself, 'Today, I'll try to write something. It doesn't matter if it's only fifty words or only one sentence, I'll just write something.' If you start with this approach, you might be surprised to see you end up with 500/600 words.

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