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Paul Thomas Anderson on how to break through writer’s block

The best way for me to start writing a story is to get two characters talking to each other. And if you got questions from one, you’re gonna have to get answers from the other, and you can start to find out who is coming out of you when you’re writing,

I usually get through writer’s block by putting stickers on something I haven’t already put stickers on and then I make two cups of tea and then I make the perfect playlist to accompany my writing and then I take out my notebook and I free-write for an hour. Okay so really only the last part. The rest is just foreplay.