|  Last week, I couldn't turn off the word spigot. Short memos ended up filling pages. I had to attach post-it notes to my post-it notes just to contain my ideas. And when a friend came to me with a haiku and asked for a bit of help, I tried to convince her to abandon the rigid, traditional structure for a more modern 5-syllable/ 7-syllable/ 349-syllable formula. (It's kind of a haiku, run-on sentence hybrid.)
Unfortunately, the wordy magic I had last week is gone. Today, instead of watching words spill from my fingertips onto the page, I've been researching ways to beat my writer's block. Here are some tricks famous people have used to beat the block: -Get Naked: When Victor Hugo ran out of ideas, he'd make his servants take all of his clothes, and leave him completely naked in a room for hours. With just a pen and paper, there wasn't anything else to do but write. -Get Naked, Morning Edition: Ben Franklin used to wake up at 5 am to take "air baths." He'd strip, grab a pen and paper, and then sit in front of a window to let the bracing breeze inspire him. -Wait for Rain: According to this post by Ransom Riggs, the playwright Maxwell Anderson claimed he could only write when it was raining outside. His fair weather solution? To stay productive in sunny weather, he had a sprinkler attached to his roof. Since my Victorian sensibilities won't let me indulge in the first two options, I'm having someone price an office hose and sprinkler. My keyboard may get soggy, but one way or another, you'll be getting more amusing newsletters in the weeks to come! Here's hoping you're finding lots to grin about on this very sunny day.
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