Take a break. Take an honest break. Go polish railings or find a cat to scritch or visit your local museum. Take a walk to the top floor of the Bangor Public Library. Talk to the librarians about your books, if you must.
Read something you don't usually read. Biography of a world champion cellist. How to build a doll house. History of railroads. How manga got that way.
Visit a coinshop like you mean it. Or visit a
Do something unseasonal: go to Bar Harbor and talk to Kristen, or stand at the downtown pier and see how empty the harbor feels this time of the year.
Draw/design a fantasy perfect writing house.
Plan on coming back to writing sometime later later this week, maybe later next week, maybe next month... say give yourself 10 days with an enforced "no new fiction from these hands"...
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Read something you don't usually read. Biography of a world champion cellist. How to build a doll house. History of railroads. How manga got that way.
Visit a coinshop like you mean it. Or visit a
Do something unseasonal: go to Bar Harbor and talk to Kristen, or stand at the downtown pier and see how empty the harbor feels this time of the year.
Draw/design a fantasy perfect writing house.
Plan on coming back to writing sometime later later this week, maybe later next week, maybe next month... say give yourself 10 days with an enforced "no new fiction from these hands"...
Bake.
Take a break. Call it a winter vacation. Mean it.