Goodreads asked Carley Fortune:

How do you deal with writer’s block?

Carley Fortune I don't think I've ever experienced writer's block as we tend to think of it. I was an editor for 16 years, and I view writing as work. Some days the work comes more easily and the words flow, and other days I spend an hour (or more!) trying to ignore the voices in my head telling me that I don't know what I'm doing and that I have no right writing. Whatever kind of day it is, I still write. It doesn't have to be perfect — or even good — but I know something is better than nothing.
I do come to moments in a manuscript where I'm not sure where to take the story or how to solve a problem, and whenever that happens, I move my body. My preference is to go for a run. Walks work, too. I find I have so many breakthroughs (big and small) while I'm exercising or after I've got my blood moving. For me, a stuck body often equals a stuck mind.

flag