I was struggling with
a huge writing project proposal.
It involved multiple books,
multiple story lines,
numerous characters and settings.
I tried plotting it using Word.
I was struggling.
I couldn’t see it.
Then I laid it out using Excel
and suddenly it was easy.
Years ago,
the business development team
was sitting in a boardroom,
brainstorming ideas
for a new juice-based beverage.
The ideas weren’t flowing.
So we moved the brainstorming meeting
to the lunchroom.
Within a half an hour,
we couldn’t write fast enough
to capture the ideas.
When I’m stuck with a story,
I’ll change from keyboard to pen
and then vary the pen colors
until the words start to flow again.
If you’re stuck for solutions,
change your tools, location,
color, methods.
It sounds simple
but it often works.