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What's your secret to survival? 

To be honest, I've been having a nerve-wracking, over-crowded, and tough time lately, and the first thing that suffers is my writing. I haven't cracked my novel in two weeks and everything I write sounds all wooden.

"Whine, whine, whine," you might say, but I know you've felt the same way as me. That's why I dug through my summer archives to come back with an inspirational quote from our special guest, Heather McElhatton. Before publishing her second manuscript, she was falling apart at her mother's house and sitting on a novel nobody would publish.

She survived, and we can too. Here's her advice:

"You survive it because you have no choice. It's like you're trapped under ice and you survive on random pockets of air at the surface. You use whatever you have to get by. Single moments can sustain you. Moments with friends, pets, nature, favorite TV shows, cocktails, other people's writing, poetry, chocolate, whatever you have to survive on,  use it to get to the next day."

That's her answer. How do you survive the tough times as a writer? Share your story in the comments and I'll put them up next week.