What is your method for overcoming writer’s block?
The battering ram. What I mean by that is rewriting. I back up into the pages I have already written and start rewriting and moving forward. It usually helps me gather momentum that takes me through the block like a battering ram.
What are your favorite or most helpful writing prompts?
My answer to everything is probably rewriting. It seems to me to be the key to everything. I usually start each day by reading and editing what I wrote the day before. I, then, enter the fixes and rewrites and this seems to get me going.
What is the most valuable advice you received as a young writer?
From an interview I read with Kurt Vonnegut: Make sure that on every page every character wants something, even if it is only a drink of water.
