Goodreads asked Ron Rayborne:

How do you deal with writer’s block?

Ron Rayborne I'm not sure that I'm qualified to answer this question as I've only written one book. But it's the one book that I've wanted to write for so long. At first, I worried about writer's block. I think the power of suggestion makes it worse.You hear so much about it that it begins to take on an impression of the inevitable and insurmountable. There are huge books written about how to overcome writer's block. Just the size of those books makes it seem like an onerous task. So I had this story inside me, and it felt like a dam that was ready to burst, but worry about writer's block was stopping me.

My book is very detail oriented, in that, there is a lot of science in it. That took years to research. During this time, I was also an avid hiker. Thus I built up experiences that helped me know what I wanted to have happen in the book. I made lists of everything. After a while, the book, we'll the skeleton of it, was staring me in the face. All I had to do then was clothe it. When it seemed like a baby about to be born, I retreated to my writing room, put on evocative music and began. It drifted, swirled and cascaded through me. It was the most fun I've ever had. The editing, though, was the opposite of that. In the quick writing of Opalescence I made a lot of annoying typos, which has been as painful to fix as writing the book was enjoyable.

Anyway, I didn't force it. I let it flow on it's own. I think there is a counter-force when you try to force things. Relaxing and loving the story was like removing the dam.

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