Believe it or not, I'm no stranger to Writer's Block myself. When my daughter (my first child) was born, I stopped writing for a good five years. I have the Archive and LnC:NAoS to thank
. I was trying to come up for a reason why there would be a dimension without a Clark for Alt-Clark to move to (again it started out as a backstory for Book 2: Wrong Dimension, Wrong Time, Wrong Clark). "Superman What?" came from something my son said. "Once Upon A Dream" was my attempt at taking one of my old stories and making it into a LnC story. "First Kiss" was my attempt at writing pure WAFF. Okay... now, I've completely gone off on a tangent. Anyway, my point is that inspiration can come from anywhere.
Keep an open mind and let yourself be inspired by anything or everything, and if not inspired, enjoy the ride.
If I get writer's block while working on a long story (such as my current Soap Opera), I take a break, catch up on my FDK, catch up on "Bones" (S7), or my new addiction "Once Upon A Time". Sometimes, I'll try writing the scene from a different POV. If it isn't working from Lois's, will it work better from Clark's, or Cat's? Once in a blue moon, I actually realize I'm just rambling and cut the scene completely (Cat Grant's Christmas Party, for example). Sometimes, I skip the scene for now and move on to the next one and see if it was really important to write the scene at all or if I can just allude to the key points later (as I did with Grant's Christmas Party in Part 86). Maybe, someday, I'll go back and flesh out the party scene and add it into the Archive version (what's one more part when the story already knocking ML on it's heels, right?)
I keep two notebooks (actually three
) for writing in when I'm not on the computer. One for my current story, one for Book 3 (which I technically haven't worked on in 6 months because I don't want to lose focus on Book 2), and one on short story inspirations. I've got an Nfic story sitting there, I haven't finished because I could never find an ending. Next time I get stuck in WC mud, I'll probably bust it out, type it up and see if I can make anything from it.
Okay, I see I'm rambling again.
Check out the Challenges folder and for a writing exercise, pick a challenge at random and see if you can make it work. I suggest: Take one of the revelations from the
100 Revelations Thread and see what you come up with if Lois had discovered Clark's secret during one of the 100 times he revealed himself to her without her noticing.
Remember, it's just a writing exercise. It isn't a Pulitzer. It's just to stretch your muscles. Maybe it will end up in the circular file. Maybe it will end up posting on the boards. Maybe, just maybe, you'll have a Kerth in 2014.
Good luck!