Goodreads asked Rick Royster:

How do you deal with writer’s block?

Rick Royster I don't get writers block- I plan and organize. I know my destination before I start. In the planning stages I work out what the theme and goals are, so the characters always have something to do. Its just a matter of me creating scenarios that keeps the characters from getting what they want. If they want the apple in the tree, i'll put thorns, rain and snow, and another person who will do anything for that apple, and if they get close to it, my character better pray I don't make the apple poisonous or half rotten.

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