As you may know from my earlier posts, I am now working from home, hopefully for the forseeable future.
Being cooped up at home with little stimulation (if you don’t include distractions!) means that it is very difficult to find new inspiration or to come up with new ideas.
So what I like to do is ride my bike to the shops. I find that not only can I easily make any plans but I also often get moments of great insipriation about my work and possible new directions.
I also got this when I used to work in an office and would take the train to work. So I started to keep a very small pocket notebook and would write down ideas as they came because often you will forget them as easily as you forget dreams if you don’t write them down.
Just remember that you can get a book full of ideas which can leave with further dilemmas such as what to do with them all! It’s just as important to make sense of these new ideas in a logical manner and to give each idea the attention it deserves. Whatever you do, don’t start a new thing every day or you will never see any idea through to it’s conclusion.
But anyway, the moral of this post is that if your mind is stuck in a rut and you have writer’s block then get away from the computer and get outside and you will soon find that you will naturally and automatically untangle your state of mind.