Goodreads asked Marcia Calhoun Forecki:

How do you deal with writer’s block?

Marcia Calhoun Forecki I have 2 techniques. One or the other usually works for me. First, I try reading. Not for pleasure, but slow, careful reading of writers I admire. Sometimes a character or a phrase will ignite my thinking. Another method, is to go where I can be along and comfortable - sometimes outside at a lake near me and sometimes in bed - and just let my thoughts wander. I recall people and places in my past, or movies I've seen, or people I've known. I think about what might have come before or after an event. I think about what might have happened if a character in a book or movie had made a different choice. I think about people I've known, especially people I have not known well, and wonder how they might have become who they were. By following these "wonderings" I often come up with an idea to pursue. That idea may not lead to a story, but it may lead to another idea that does develop into something I want to write about.

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