Reply #15: don't work on your article

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just clear your mind (meditation, tea, soothing music, whatever works for you)

set a three-minute timer

start writing words--not your article, not sentences, no "editor," just whatever words come to mind in stream of consciousness, one after the other.

if needed do this a couple of times a day


also, sometimes another idea or issue blocks the thing I think I'm working on. Try writing something else--poetry, a short story, jokes...whatever.

try breaking your routine. write at a different time of day or in a different place than usual. I find I'm very creative very late and sometimes very early.

exercise can also help


you could also try having a wild, mad, crazy fling with another DUer to take your mind off Adam coming home. Okay, that was uncalled for. :evilgrin: