Riding Around the Block

I read an article this morning about what some writers do to get around writer's block.

All of them seemed to take inspired short-term remedies: solitaire topped the list, followd with going for a walk, gardening, reading, fixing an item that needs attention and cleaning.

I try to take a walk everyday. Sometimes that isn't possible and those days seem to drag on until I start cleaning. I clean sometimes. I'm not a neat freak by nature. When my brain is working in overdrive, left to my own devices, I'd ride the wave until it crashed. It could be a few hours or a few days.

Currently the house is pretty clean.

Even when I'm not blocked, but need a bigger bolt of inspiration, I drive to the grocery with no music. I take a digital recorder only to find I'm self conscious about talking into it.

Gordo bought me a table saw several years ago. I know he thinks I've forgotten about it, but I haven't. We recently bought new furniture for the living room. It looks like a larger room, in part because the books are missing. they are currently hogging up precious space in his office.

I have plans for building low rise book shelves that can be stained or painted. I'm a big recycler and have lots of scrap wood from a home construction site and I'm itching to work on the shelves.

Who knows? If I keep careful notes and take photos, I might be able to write a how to article on how to make inexpensive shelves... see, writer's block cured.

So if you see a wall of bookshelves, or a new wing on my house, I guess you can guess if I still feel blocked...

But tell me. What do you do to get around writer's block?