I have a writing weekend in which not much actual writing gets done. I never experience writers’ block as such but suffer from something I call ‘writers’ spiral’, where I feel to be stuck on a particular idea and end up going round with it in my head in ever-decreasing circles.
It helps to get up from the desk and do other things. I have to remind myself that I’m just as likely to have a workable creative idea whilst pushing the supermarket trolley or washing the kitchen floor as I am sitting in front of the computer screen, staring out of the window.
