Goodreads asked Lara Temple:

How do you deal with writer’s block?

Lara Temple I write. I know it sounds silly, but that’s what I do. I used to go into writing hibernation, running away from that block, but now it rarely happens because I literally just write my way through it. Often what I write when I’m stuck on a scene or heading into a new book isn’t very good but that’s what I have an excerpt file for (it where I dump deleted scenes – every book has a file like this and sometimes they are half as long as the finished book, I just find it easier than deleting the scenes outright, that just feels too brutal). Another tactic is to re-read what I’ve written so far and do some light editing then when I get to the sticky bit sometimes it has shaken free and I see that the block was really an attempt of a tired brain to tell me something just isn’t working. So I tend to respect blocks but I don’t indulge them, if that makes sense…?

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