Goodreads asked Miranda A. Uyeh:

How do you deal with writer’s block?

Miranda A. Uyeh There are a couple of ways I deal with writer's block. First of, when I'm brain tired, I acknowledge that I am, and I don't force anything. I give my brain the needed rest and leisure it needs/desires. I've found that the leisures (books/movies) help develop ideas.

Second, I'm a plotter and pantser. Somewhere along the line I discovered that I did both and wasn't purely any of them. So I embraced both writing styles and even trained myself on how to use each one. There are days when the creative juices flow excessively, and I let go, even surprising myself with what I come up with. Some of my most brilliant writings have come to me this way. Other days (i.e. the writer block days) are slow or empty. So I simply take a pen and paper, mark the beginning and end of the basic idea of my story as A & Z, and then I "logically" start to plot the in-betweens like I'd do any essay. The plotting, however, is never fully detailed, so that I have room for free-rein-writing. I love complex stories! And, plotting is the way to achieve complexity without giving your story a structure problem. So, yeah, I find it fun, too!

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