Things I can do to inpire me to write:
· Drink fifteen quadruple-strength coffees.
· Scour the news for ideas.
· Free writing: start writing complete crap and eventually it will work itself out into something.
· Think of a really good opening sentence, then stare at the screen until there are more words.
· Put said opening sentence at the end of the chapter/scene and write the scene so that it leads up to the sentence.
· Bash my head against the desktop repeatedly, while swearing at the top of my lungs. (Note: this one may annoy the neighbors.)
· Pick five random words from the dictionary and string them together into a sentence. Repeat hundreds of times until it’s finished.
· Read something by somebody really clever, then plagiarize. Then feel bad about it and delete everything.
· Juggle penguins. It doesn’t help me write, but the penguins seem to enjoy it.
· Ingest a mind-altering substance next to a keyboard. Check again later when consciousness is regained.
· Write stupid lists of things to do until I get a better idea.