Goodreads asked Nicola Sinclair:

How do you deal with writer’s block?

Nicola Sinclair I can't say I've ever been "blocked", at least not to the point where I can't write anything. I have, however, been stuck at a point in the story where I just can't seem to continue. I know where I want to go, I just don't quite know how to get there. I have two ways of dealing with this problem. The first is that I simply skip the bit I can't figure out and head straight over to a scene I know I can write, that way I keep the momentum going and it gives me more time to fill in the blanks later. My second technique is to stop writing altogether and give myself permission to daydream. This entails is grabbing a cup of coffee and making myself comfortable either on my favourite chair, or laying out in the sun - wherever I can relax, and then I just dream up alternate scenario's until I stumble across one I like.

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