Goodreads asked H. Claire Taylor:

How do you deal with writer’s block?

H. Claire Taylor I almost never have writer's block. My problem tends to be the opposite: too many ideas and not enough time. Storytelling is a muscle that you exercise by asking, "And then what if...?" over and over again. As someone with a tendency toward worrying, I'm already asking that question all day every day, so focusing it on my work rather than the minutia of life has been a fairly productive solution to both writing and avoiding full-blown psychological neurosis.

My M.O. is to think twenty steps ahead, so sure, sometimes I hit a roadblock in my story, but I realize it well before it's time to put fingers to keyboard. By the time I'm actually sitting at the computer, I already know where the next 20k words (at least) of my manuscript are going, and as the story comes to life, the solution to whatever problem I was facing later on tends to appear organically. I think that's really the trick: planning multiple plot points ahead before you even start writing.

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