Goodreads asked L. Jagi Lamplighter:

How do you deal with writer’s block?

L. Jagi Lamplighter I think the advise given by author Gene Wolfe is the best I have seen: If you are truly blocked, stop communicating for a few days. Get off Facebook, off the phone. Do some kind of physical activity...hiking, yard work. Let your body work and your mind rest. After a few days of this, ideas often come in droves.

I have a trick, however, for dealing with minor writer's block. Take the scene you are stuck on and set it in a different physical local. Put it in the drawing room instead of the dining hall. At the lake instead of at the club.

Just changing the physical local, having to write a new description and have the characters interact with it in a slightly new way often turns the scene around.

I don't know why this works, but I've used it many times.

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