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A Novel Solution

How do you fight writer’s block? By going away and coming back later? By sitting there with a towel over your head till inspiration comes?

Writing is like golf. It can be exhilarating one day, infuriating the next. What works for one writer can be a total disaster for another. I’ve always found that the best answer to writer’s block is to sleep on it. Problems that cause my brain to seize up at night often seem like no problems at all in the morning. The trick is to be able to clear your mind before you try to doze off. If you take your writer’s block to bed with you and mull it over under the duvet, you’ll be like a zombie next day and your block will be even more fearsome.

In writing The Girl with the Haunting Smile, I have never set out to scribble a pre-determined…

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