Unbeatable ways to kick writer’s block in the teeth. Or at least have some fun. 😀
- Take a break
- Take a walk
- Take a shower
- Take a nap
- Travel to Europe
- Have sex
- Stop telling yourself this is the Next Great American Novel.
- Tell yourself you just write shit. Good shit or bad shit, doesn’t matter, because it makes you happy
- Read through your “Kick Ass” file. You know, the place you put all the nice things everyone’s ever said about your writing–from your kindergarten teacher on.
- If you don’t have a “Kick Ass” file, make one. If you don’t have any nice things to add, make some up.
- Make up 10 things to add to your “Kick Ass” file. Pretend that they’re true.
- Read some good shit. Like Nabokov. That’s good shit.
- Drink an espresso
- Eat a madeleine
- Explode peeps in your microwave
- Watch a funny movie
- Hang with a funny friend
- Trigger a deep belly laugh
- Trigger an orgasm
- Dance naked around the house
- Kung fu fighting
- Shoot a gun
- Take a drive
- Stick pencils up your nose and pretend to be a walrus
- Put up a bird feeder
- Plant a tree
- Punch a pillow
- Climb every mountain.
- Ford every stream
- Follow every rainbow
- Take another nap
- Get a ride in a police vehicle
- Get a ride in an ambulance
- Do something nice for someone
- Write lines of Shakespeare on the walls of your house. Especially in the bathroom, so you can always sneak away to “do a line”
- Shower
- Clean your house
- Read through an old journal
- Tell yourself you’re a genius
- Take 10 comments from your “Kick Ass” file, write on sticky notes, and put them in places you will see often.
- If you don’t have 10 “Kick Ass” comments, make them up.
- Get high
- Get more coffee
- Eat sugar
- Light a smelly candle
- Take a bath
- Get a massage
- Jump your lover
- Give your partner a happy ending
- Go for a hike
- Go for a swim
- Go to the moon
- Call your mother
- Dance in the rain
- Go shopping
- Cry
- Go out to eat
- Eat more madeleines
- Drink tea
- Drink a latte
- Drink tea and a latte (double fisting!)
- Babysit for an afternoon
- Declare that the floor and ground is covered in alligators and build a system of ramps to climb from place to place
- Build a fort
- Send the kids home and make love with your beau in the fort
- Swing on a swing
- Go dancing
- Take up drumming
- Hum
- Sing
- Play the piano
- Smooch
- Smooch a member of the blue man group
- Get your make up done
- Get your nails done
- Get your hair done
- Dress up fancy and go to a bar
- Have a good time 😉 😉
- Go to a sex shop
- Buy a new toy
- Use your new toy
- Have multiple orgasms
- Meditate
- Do yoga
- Do Pilates
- Do Yogalates
- Do Yogalates naked in front of your lover
- Wait till your partner’s asleep, then cover them with silly string
- TP your own house
- Do some yard work
- Fix something around the house
- Move around the furniture
- Reorganize your bookshelves by color
- Go to the library
- Go apple picking
- Help! I’m out of ideas. If you think of one, write me. I’ll be in Europe, eating madeleines…