Alright, we all have it at one point in time or another, with an empty page in front of us and our minds all blotted out. What can you do to destroy this wall we call writers' black?
Well, obviously, I plan on answering this question.
While this would be more effective with leisure writing, who knows when else it could be helpful, so try keeping what I tell you in mind.
Personally, writers' block comes about biweekly or perhaps even more often than that. These are tips that help me get over this more than half the time:
1: Read a book.
A book is the creation of someone who at one point was doing what you're doing--writing a story. This, though, is beside the point; when you read, you collect ideas that can go into your story, but be warned! Of course you can't repeat the whole story, or its subject to being sued! Duh! In which case, you think of different plot twists, maybe even add some things together from completely different stories.
2: Draw a picture of the scene.
Some writers' block happens when you don't know how to get the scene to keep going or whatever. In drawing it, even if you're bad a drawing, you can better picture the situation, and sometimes you can get ideas from what you may randomly add/find in your art, or maybe from the facial expressions that you may, accidentily or not, put upon a person's face.
3: Act it out.
This can be done with a friend or sibming, if they're cooperative in the making of your production, but it can also be don alone. If you act out the siuation, then you canfigure out by the progression of the scene what can be added and even some things that can be improved.
4: Ask for advice.
Ideas can come from the most random of people from the most random of places in the most bizarre forms (or even some normal ones!). Ask a random person a random question and see where it takes you; or, if it's someone who's read your story while it was in the process of creation, you could just ask them straight out what they have as an idea, or maybe just ask for their prediction so you can build toward or around their thoughts and ideas.
5: Think about daily life.
Situations in any story don't have to be all made up--actually, that can be pretty bad/boing if there's a little too much, unless the genre of the story is supposed to flow tht way. Some stories though need something like a real-life situation to bring them back down to earth. To enhance your thoughts you can even write a small memoir, or a collection of 'Snap Shots' from your past, and then see what you come up with!
6: Use personal interests.
If it interests you, it's bound to interest some one else, too. Don't be shy to put yourself in your writing just a little bit.
7: Take a break.
Non-stop writing leads to a dull brain. Try doodling, reading, or doing an outdoor activity, even if you're too lazy--you definitely won't regret it!
It's a bit of a list, but hopefully it will be a useful one the next time you run into writers' block. You can bet your britches (heh, another lame line in my arsenal) that more hints and tips will be on here to help you with the writing of your story/stories!
(Note: Whenever I refer to 'stories' I'm including mangas and such as well, I just don'twant to say both all the time.
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