How to get the creative juices flowing in three easy steps

1-Clear all the extraneous paper off your desk. That means bills, receipts, trash, forms, letters, coupons, cards, and printed directions that are completely pointless because you have a GPS on your goddamn cell phone anyway. Burn them if you can. It's cathartic. If not, recycle. Just because you're blocked doesn't mean you should be a tool to an innocent tree somewhere that never done you no wrong.

2-Take a nap. The stuff you write when you're exhausted and burned out isn't actually good. You...