Research, any research, will cure writer’s block. A lot of people have this romantic idea that writing is about conjuring up eloquent and insightful passages, bridging them together into the best thing that’s been writ since . . . well, the little blurb they wrote to put on the flap of their first best seller. The writing process is at least 90 per cent research whether it’s fiction or non-fiction, poetry or prose.
Good stories write themselves but they need good writers to craft them together.

Take notes and review them regularly. Try writing a paragraph in your notebook away from your computer. Don’t let those little inspirations you get evade you because you can’t remember them once you fire up your word processor.

There are lots of ways to get the juices flowing. These are some of mine.

And there is real-life, work and other interactions which give me ideas which could be better formed in writing, and a blog is a great place to capture those ideas.

I really agree with Talk Radio – so many different points of view to listen to and be inspired by.