Goodreads asked Eleanor Lerman:

How do you deal with writer’s block?

Eleanor Lerman I don't let myself ever have writer's block. I work every morning, even if it's just for half an hour. If I'm working on a novel, I just pick up where I left off the day before. If I'm between projects, I've trained myself to wander around in my own thoughts to consider what I care about, what ideas interest me and what stories might form a framework for those ideas. I've been working as a writer for many years now and I've narrowed down the subjects I'm interested in writing about: mostly, I'm wondering about what might lie beyond the human horizon and how to tell stories that would lead me--and my readers--over that horizon to whatever comes next.

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