Goodreads asked E.M. Ervin:

How do you deal with writer’s block?

E.M. Ervin I glare a LOT at the screen.

If I am having a great deal of trouble with a scene, I will skip ahead to another one. That will often help loosen things up, and help me determine how the problem-scene needs to go to get to where I'm wanting.

I do a lot of story-boarding - I have a whiteboard and a ridiculous amount of notebooks filled with random things. Some of those notes never come to fruition, others inspire full sections in and of themselves.

I'm fortunate to also have a few friends who I can treat as sounding boards. They know my world well enough, they know what I've been working on. I sit and babble, and that often times shakes things loose as well.

But mostly? I glare at the screen...

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