teflon

I've done something similar...like writing in daydreaming passages, abstract thinking as a reported voice etc.:

The cold-coffee day frozen by a frigid bitch, he thought to himself.

Soft hair in my face, in my mouth, no throwing up this time.

xpetahzx

One thing that works for a lot of people is basically going outside. Find something to do, and ideas might just pop into your head. And even if it doesn't, when you come back to it, you'll be refreshed and you'll see stuff you never noticed before.

Capulet

I read the works of others, and ask myself "what if something different happened?" Usually that will feed me some ideas and plot twists that I can try to rework with different characters and different scenes.

I eat salsa and chocolate milk, the extreme chemical reaction the two have to each other puts me into a state that allows alternate, creative thinking.

I also stop trying to think of things to write. Once my brain is no longer contracting with effort, ideas seem to drift lazily in.

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Talia_Brie

There are a lot of people who don't really believe in Writer's Block, and I'm beginning to think I'm one of them.

What most people refer to as writer's block I think is mostly a matter of procrastination (at least in my case - I used to be a procrastinator, but now I, of well, I'll get back to that later), or lack of preparation.

I also think that preparation counts as writing. Which means if you're lying on the coach thinking about the story, outline, certain scenes etc, then that counts as writing.

That's my opinion at least, but I know not everyone agrees.

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DL Ferguson

I usually have several projects going on at the same time so that if some reason I get stuck on one story, I don't even try and force my way through it. I'll put it aside and go to work on something else (usually one of my fan fic stories) since I belive the most important thing is to keep on writing and not just walk away in disgust. I find that after I've worked on something else, my subconscious has sorted out what was wrong and I can return to the problem child and continue.

Another thing I do is during the day while going about mundane chores and can do without thinking, I'll start planning what scenes I'm going to write when I sit down at the keyboard. This way, when I start to write, I don't have to spend an hour staring into the screen wondering what I'm going to write. Like Talia, I count the time that I spend working on a story in my head as writing.