Goodreads asked Doemar Grey:

How do you deal with writer’s block?

Doemar Grey Writer's block is only as powerful as we allow it to be. For me, I found it works to write dialogue, a conversation, between two characters, no descriptions. It doesn't matter if it's a conversation between characters in the current story or if it's relevant to where you are in the story, though that certainly helps. It feels productive to be writing and it sparks ideas to get me over the hurdle. I do not believe my characters take over. That's not possible because I am the one driving them, not the other way around, but I do believe this exercise of restraint free writing opens the author's mind to possibilities that maybe the previous outline is hindering. You cannot force a scene in the story if it's not supported properly and this is usually where a block occurs in my experience, where I have written myself into a corner. Delete everything that your gut tells you was a struggle and start over from where you still felt happy with it. The first time you do that hurts, but it's so effective you'll never hesitate again.

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