Anybody with demolition experience...

[gridlore]

.. know how to rig C-4 to blow Writer's Block?

This empty screen is mocking me. All the words and ideas are right behind my eyes, swirling there like jets stacked up over an airport, but the runways are closed..

I'm trying my usual tricks, writing something other than Traveller, writing haiku about the Giants

Ninth inning, our lead
Vanishes in summer fog
Bullpen blows the save.

But not one word is coming through.

*headdesk*

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[persimmon.livejournal.com]

Write anything at all. Shopping list, obscene limericks, revised nursery rhymes, naming all the objects you can see that have corners, lyrics to a song, until you have more than 300 words on the page. Save the page, print it, then find the 17th, 43rd and 171st words on that page, incorporate these into a sentence. Then ask the next person you see to name three numbers from 200 - 300, and use those words in the next sentence.
Total your phone number, subtract it from 300, add up sequentially the numbers remaining - and THAT word starts the next sentence.

This is much less headache-causing than banging your head against the desk, reasonable problem solving, and it gets you past the omigawd stage. Fingers crossed for you.