Goodreads asked Daniel Quentin Steele:

How do you deal with writer’s block?

Daniel Quentin Steele Brute force. I make myself sit down and write lines, and more lines, and more lines. I'm writing my way out of a block in my current novel. I know I can do it because I wrote my way out of an18-year block in the 80s and 90s. I wrote short stories, newspaper and magazine articles and comic book scripts, but I couldn't make myself write a word on the novel I'd been working on and I couldn't move on to another novel until I finished the one I'd started. One day I made myself start writing the next page and the next and the next. It was like chipping the words out of stone and I knew what I was writing was crap. Years later, I can re-read the novel and I can't tell any difference from the words I'd sweated blood over and the stuff that had flowed without any effort. After that, I never thought I'd hit another block. I never expected it, but I did. But again, I made myself start writing words and lines and it is slow, but they're coming.

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