- Read lots of really good books and try to be inspired by their genius rather than dispirited by the gulf between you
- Read some badly written books and fix them in your head, and remind yourself that physiology – biting lips, churning stomachs, twisting fingers – is as painful to read as it is, apparently, for the character to experience
- Read those sentences, paragraphs, or pages written by friends and family that seem so impossibly clever but remind yourself that that is a different gift to writing a book, and fight down that jealousy and the sense that you are the wrong person to be attempting this
- Devote some of that precious writing time to looking through old work and thinking about how it might fit in the future
Look up writing quotes which can occasionally ring true - Daydream about all the amazing things that you will write and that maybe, one day, will be published, or else will be discovered on your death when you will be hailed the great, unsung hero of your generation
- Think about what your life would be like if your favourite book had never been published
- Revisit favourite characters
- Write a list
- Write a paragraph
- Write a chapter
Alison Theresa 
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