Goodreads asked Meg Long:

How do you deal with writer’s block?

Meg Long For me, feel like there's two kinds of writer's block. The first is when I sit down and am unsure what goes in the scene I'm trying to write. The second is when I am completely unmotivated to start writing. Usually the second one happens because the first one is true -- I don't know what's going on in the scene. Usually, it's because I need to back up and adjust something or throw something wilder into the scene to make it spark or I need to change up the characters/setting/etc. Doing one of those things generally gets me out of the funk and excited to write again. But there are always days where I am just not in the mood and that's okay too. If I try and force creativity, I end up with thousands of words that go nowhere. (Seriously, I have a lot of drafts stuck around 15k words because they weren't really the words I wanted or needed to write.) So, sometimes its okay to let yourself take time off from writing. These are just things I've discovered about my own process. Everyone's process is different and there's no right way to do things that involve creativity. :)

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