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So, other writers, what do you do when you feel yourself dragging along with no inspiration?

I sat in my office yesterday, tapping a pen to the paper, and I couldn't come up with anything. Usually I listen to music, but all that gave me was pretty but surreal magical girl-esque imagery set in Morgan's universe (aka, the boy's club). Not useful.

I look at pretty pictures, sometimes, which is why so much of my writing is very nature-y. I don't watch much TV anymore now that I just have basic cable and all the good TV has emigrated to specialized channels, and I haven't read nearly as much as I used to, which makes me wonder if I'm falling on my face mostly because there are no new ideas rolling around in my head beyond "how to write a cover letter" and "how to shmooze better with people."

There are a lot of writing prompts out there, but they're pretty worthless IMO because they're things like "orange sundae." Okay? And you want me to do what with that? I'm a master of writing bullshit with no plot or purpose and not even I can finnagle anything out of such a prompt as anything except an exercise, and waxing pedantic about random minutae is the only writing exercise I don't need. At least give me "that horrible, world-ending feeling when you miss the bus even though you know the next one will arrive in five minutes."

Orange sundae just makes me hungry.