Goodreads asked Devanye Hansen:

How do you deal with writer’s block?

Devanye Hansen Generally, I'll harrass my family and friends. I'll talk about my book, about where I got stuck, which characters have gone into hiding, and vent out my writer's block frustration. By the time I'm done, I usually know what I'm going to do next. I'm very blessed to have patient people in my life who'll be my sounding board.
Other times, I'll take a break from the story, start a different one, or scrap it altogether. I've started over on Panthyr, the third book in the series, three times! Which is why I didn't publish Abednego until I'd started writing Gryphon, the seventh and last book of the series. There are easily 25-50 stories that I started and never finished. They're just sitting on my desktop until I revisit them. Some of them have been there for over a decade.

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