Michael Ridpath
One thing I don’t do is take the day, or the week or the month off. Writer’s block is your sub-conscious telling you there is something wrong with the story you are trying to write. The solution often relies on the premises or decisions you have already taken, so I often go back and question those. Another technique is to write down the problem that is troubling me as a question, and then do something else for a couple of days and write down the answer.
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Hello Michael, I'm guessing you are neither a native of Iceland nor Germany, although you must have stayed in both when researching for your writing. My question is: which was harder to write with - Iceland set in your lifetime, or Germany set in the past which obviously you were unfamiliar with?
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