Describe a season with all senses involved; then choose an emotion that fits your description and describe it. Do these descriptions suggest a story to you?

Write an account of your day, boring as it might have been. Then write a fictional account of how your day could have been from the same start - as outrageous as you like. Once you've written something it usually helps.

Go through magazines and look at the pictures. Find a couple that appeal to you and write a story about them. What's going on in the picture? Why? What's going to happen next? Don't put too much structure into it. Just write and brainstorm.

When there is something interesting happening during that day, write it down.....make something funny out of anything even if it makes no sense..you can always take it out later ...have fun and do not overdo!

Go through the dictionary and read some random words. Your bound to get inspiration.

Keep a little book of all your ideas for hard times like when you get writer's block. They could be horrible ideas when you write them down, but an idea can lead to anything.

Start keeping a diary of your dreams. Try to write them down as soon as you wake up. They can be very inspirational for story ideas!

Go through some of your old stories (Doesn't everyone have some stashed away in a notebook somewhere?). See if you can put a twist in or edit out something. Breathe new life into them!

I listen to music. I like to analyze the words of songs, discern the meanings.

Read read read. Preferably a book that stretches you a little- i.e. a more difficult reading level. This always helps me write, especially if I know what to say, but don't know how to say it.

if you or someone you know has children, follow them around for a little while, amazing at how different you would look at life-write about it!

I try just letting my mind wander; I pick a topic (or one just comes to me) and think on it for a while, until one thing leads to another, and I've broken my writers block!

When I am stumped, I go to another story and write on that for awhile. Sometimes your brain refuses to comment on something, so I try different topics until one feels interesting.

Go outside and sit down for a while, watching people. Try to remember they way they talk and what they talk about. It helps to write a story in your head while watching them.

Exercise. It clears my mind and refreshes me for another round of writing.

Give your mind a change of scene. Watch a film, read a book, visit a new place..

Look at something that moves you-could be a leaf flying around, an old man complaining, a child laughing, and describe it. Or you could get in on all the writing.com action. That'll keep ya busy and writing! Min

Make yourself a cup of java , sit somewhere quiet, and listen to music with good lyrics. Or read poetry. I've found that hearing others' creativity inspires me to more of my own.

I like to enter contest like the Writer's Cramp, that give a new prompt every day. Even if I think I can't do it, I try...sometimes I'm surprised by the outcome!

I like to read journals to help with Writer's block. Reading someone's journal might spark a memory or idea!

1) Look in a magazine or at people around and make up personalities and lives for them... turn them into characters and then make a story around that or 2)Think of a conflict to be resolved, and interesting people to resolve it, or ways to.

I recluse and feel sorry , then I look at things around me and like pictures ,animals, surroundings or mabey a word will inspire me.One might read a book to get inspired ,that usually does it for me .

I sing meaningful, or favorite songs until something inspires me. :)

One of my college Professor's, George Lillyman, advised, "To begin, write about something or someone you know". This helps me when I've reached an impasse.

Reading people's own stories usually helps and can give good ideas

Approach from a different angle. In my case instead of trying to write funny/humourous stories I've changed to horror stories and now my mind is flooded with ideas

When I am blocked, I find that criticizing other people's efforts gets me writing. "Why is this In&Out only showing 10 items? I would think you would want at least 25 showing. This is the first one I ever saw with only 10." See how that works?

Write over and over... I have nothing to write. After a little while of that you will surely have something. Maybe even a hand cramp....HA HA HA

"Writer's Block" is an imaginary mental condition dreamed up by people who have no real desire to write anyway.

I listen to my favorite songs. I also write down things that I have done with my friends and turn it into a story.

I listen to music or put down a name of place, person or even and go from there!

Start with nonsense,expand it until you make sense.Take the "sense",expand it to something special.Just writing helps get the juices flowing.Any writing.Don't get stuck on keeping the path you want.Let the writing dictate where it wants to go.

Sometimes I come and read these suggestions. Not all of them work for me, but at least one will.

The problem is not inability to write - the problem is thinking you don't have an idea worth writing about. You don't, but that never stopped anybody else from writing. Like me. With this. Heehee, just write something. Who cares?

A nice hot, sudsy bath with candles all around, the stereo loud with either great classical music or Dark Side of the Moon on and your creativity will take you places you've never been before (not only for writing but a great way to relax)

I've decided that thinking I'm blocked is part of a cycle I go through. As long as I remember it's only temporary, I just wait it out then have a creative spurt. Meanwhile I read.

When I am blocked I take my children for a walk, listen to the dribble drabble coming from them and the sights and sounds and smells of the town. That usually helps get my creativity flowing again.

I write down the lyrics of a favorite song on a sheet of paper and when I finish I just keep writing. Sometimes about the subject of the song, sometimes about one particular verse, whatever comes out - Unedited.

Exercise is good, but a walk taking notes of all you sense (see, hear, smell, touch, taste) is better. Jot down any emotions or memories as well. From these notes write a story, a poem, a haiku.

1) Play solitaire (spider solitaire, free cell, minesweep) while listening to music and daydreaming, even if it isn't about what you were writing. 2) Watch trailers for upcoming movies in order to daydream in trailer form.

Go to the library or bookstore and start skimming titles, summaries, and hooks.

The secret to avoiding Writer's Block is to keep writing. As long as you are writing then the Block cannot get a hold of you. It's when you stop writing that you become vulnerable.

If you don't know what you are going to write and you sit down just hoping you will think of something to write then why not write about a clueless piano player who sits down at a piano just hoping his fingers will play a song?

Just doodle for sometime, and words start flowing from your pen

I think of my experiences from the previous few days.

When I have writers block I just sit and write about something completely ridiculous. Surely most people have had stupid thoughts about things they've noticed or about people they've seen. Use that experience to write.

Don't try to write with blocks. They take up too much space on the floor. Crayon on the wall allows you to make lots more letters.

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