Goodreads asked Sean-Paul Thomas:

How do you deal with writer’s block?

Sean-Paul Thomas I used to get writer's block all the time, I always found that I couldn't get my head around a particular scene and my mind would go a total blank, so I'd just give up, say screw it and go do something else, something non writey. It was only a year or two back that I suddenly released how easy it was to just leave that particular scene and move onto the next one, or a scene further along in the book that I could actually write about and had burning ideas for. For some bizarre reason I didn't realize until that moment that it was actually possible to come back to that scene later on, further down the line. The rough first draft of a book doesn't have to be written in chronological order. I guess what I'm trying to say is that if you're having trouble writing chapter 5 then just go and write chapter 14 instead.

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