Breaking the creative block

Got writer’s block, or some other sort of blockage that’s preventing your creative or work juices flowing?

Eric Karjaluoto has written a terrific article containing lots of easy-to-implement tips and tricks to break a creative blockage, including these:

• Break the pattern
• Try working backwards
• Tidy your workspace
• Take something away
• Mix up your tools
• Look differently
• Talk it out
• Prototype
• Reorder the pieces
• Start again
• Throw away the part you love most
• Go for a walk
• Introduce something random
• Make more
• Make some rules
• Set a deadline
• Breathe

He explains each of these in the full article:
http://www.ideasonideas.com/2008/05/blockbusting/