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101 Ways to Break Writer’s Block

Unbeatable ways to kick writer’s block in the teeth. Or at least have some fun. 😀writers block

  1. Take a break
  2. Take a walk
  3. Take a shower
  4. Take a nap
  5. Travel to Europe
  6. Have sex
  7. Stop telling yourself this is the Next Great American Novel.
  8. Tell yourself you just write shit. Good shit or bad shit, doesn’t matter, because it makes you happy
  9. 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.
  10. If you don’t have a “Kick Ass” file, make one. If you don’t have any nice things to add, make some up.
  11. Make up 10 things to add to your “Kick Ass” file. Pretend that they’re true.
  12. Read some good shit. Like Nabokov. That’s good shit.
  13. Drink an espresso
  14. Eat a madeleine madeleine proust
  15. Explode peeps in your microwave
  16. Watch a funny movie
  17. Hang with a funny friend
  18. Trigger a deep belly laugh
  19. Trigger an orgasm
  20. Dance naked around the house
  21. Kung fu fighting
  22. Shoot a gun
  23. Take a drive
  24. Stick pencils up your nose and pretend to be a walrus
  25. Put up a bird feeder
  26. Plant a tree
  27. Punch a pillow
  28. Climb every mountain.
  29. Ford every stream
  30. Follow every rainbow
  31. Take another nap
  32. Get a ride in a police vehicle
  33. Get a ride in an ambulance
  34. Do something nice for someone
  35. Write lines of Shakespeare on the walls of your house. Especially in the bathroom, so you can always sneak away to “do a line”
  36. Shower
  37. Clean your house
  38. Read through an old journal
  39. Tell yourself you’re a geniuspost it
  40. Take 10 comments from your “Kick Ass” file, write on sticky notes, and put them in places you will see often.
  41. If you don’t have 10 “Kick Ass” comments, make them up.
  42. Get high
  43. Get more coffee
  44. Eat sugar
  45. Light a smelly candle
  46. Take a bath
  47. Get a massage
  48. Jump your lover
  49. Give your partner a happy ending
  50. Go for a hike
  51. Go for a swim
  52. Go to the moon
  53. Call your mother
  54. Dance in the rain
  55. Go shopping
  56. Cry
  57. Go out to eat
  58. Eat more madeleines
  59. Drink tea
  60. Drink a latte
  61. Drink tea and a latte (double fisting!)
  62. Babysit for an afternoon
  63. Declare that the floor and ground is covered in alligators and build a system of ramps to climb from place to place
  64. Build a fort
  65. Send the kids home and make love with your beau in the fort
  66. Swing on a swing
  67. Go dancing
  68. Take up drumming
  69. Hum
  70. Sing
  71. Play the piano
  72. Smooch
  73. Smooch a member of the blue man groupbue man
  74. Get your make up done
  75. Get your nails done
  76. Get your hair done
  77. Dress up fancy and go to a bar
  78. Have a good time 😉 😉
  79. Go to a sex shop
  80. Buy a new toy
  81. Use your new toy
  82. Have multiple orgasms
  83. Meditate
  84. Do yoga
  85. Do Pilates
  86. Do Yogalates
  87. Do Yogalates naked in front of your lover
  88. Wait till your partner’s asleep, then cover them with silly string
  89. TP your own house
  90. Do some yard work
  91. Fix something around the house
  92. Move around the furniture
  93. Reorganize your bookshelves by color
  94. Go to the library
  95. Go apple picking
  96. Help! I’m out of ideas. If you think of one, write me. I’ll be in Europe, eating madeleines…

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