Goodreads asked Elden Dare:

How do you deal with writer’s block?

Elden Dare Drive. Driving my car is like meditation. I reach a state of total mental clarity and, if I'm lucky, nirvana. Plots unfold, dialogue spills from the recesses of my mind. It's like someone cracks a nut and all the protein goodness inside is freed. It's the best feeling in the world.

Before the drive, I stew of course. I stew and veg and read books and whine to my friends and question every decision I've ever made in life. I curse myself for ever saying I wanted to be a writer. For days, sometimes weeks while my blank pages haunt me. Empty Word documents mock me.

And then...

I f*cking drive. I drive until I write.

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