Goodreads asked Andrew David MacDonald:

How do you deal with writer’s block?

Andrew David MacDonald Historically, I've actually had THE OPPOSITE of writer's block, which is to say I have trouble, when I'm in the middle of a project, sticking to it. My writing mentor calls this 'the Grass is Always Greener' conundrum, where the going starts getting rough and another idea hits and you think, now THAT sounds like a project I can write without getting into the tangled weeds I'm in right now.

Of course, EVERY project ends up in some form of said tangle and said weeds, and at that point you get ANOTHER idea and think, hey now, that is a SURE FIRE WAY TO LITERARY GLORY. And so you abandon this second project in favor of this sexy, sexy new project.

And on and on the mobius strip goes, and at the end of a decade you're left with fifty half finished novels, subsisting on saltines and tap water while the majority of your income, such as it is, goes to keeping your cat in high end litter and canned protein that you can't even afford for yourself.

Did I answer the question? Maybe peripherally...?

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