Suffering from writer’s block or need to add some spunk to your writing? The problem may be that you need to change up your routine.

To that end, try this tip: Fantasizing also can be cathartic. If the reason you feel grief or sadness is because another has wronged you, make a list of all of the things you’d like to do to get back at them but won’t because you don’t feel like spending the next few weeks in jail. That list isn’t off limits to your story’s characters, however!