Goodreads asked Sergio Troncoso:

How do you deal with writer’s block?

Sergio Troncoso One way I deal with writer's block is by constantly reading. I think if you want to be a writer you have to be a reader, an aggressive reader. That means, reading stories outside your culture, stories from other countries, stories from regions you are unfamiliar with. Also, I love to read poetry, and I have never written a poem in my life. I love to study the lines of Emily Dickinson's poems, for example, for their rhythm and ideas, for their cadence. So I am constantly reading, even philosophy and history and other books that have little to do with fiction or creative nonfiction, and that's one way I keep from having writer's block for too long.

Also, if I am feeling blocked in some way, I change my routine, I take a trip, I do something that I have never done before, to shake up my mind and be curious again.

Finally, when I am working on a story, and if I can't find the right way to approach the ending, for example, I work on another story or essay. I usually have several projects going at once, and I focus on whatever is working on that particular morning.

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