Goodreads asked Anna Halabi:

How do you deal with writer’s block?

Anna Halabi I sit at my laptop and the words start pouring out. Sometimes rubbish and at other times there might be one or two useful bits and pieces in the flow. If one of my characters misspoke or if I decide to change their destiny, I just hit delete and it’s like nothing ever happened.

I wish it was that easy in the real world. I wish I could just press the backspace key a few times to take back a hurtful comment that slipped from between my lips or that I can take back what I said to ruin a surprise. But alas, that's why I write fiction. To escape from the real world, to a land at the end of a rainbow.

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