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[koganbot]

From Luc's blog:

Picking up a copy of Thomas Nashe's The Unfortunate Traveller or George Ade's Fables in Slang or Chester Himes's Blind Man With a Pistol and leafing through it for five minutes helps restore my writing style when it has gone stale.

So, what works for you when your writing goes stale? (Basically, I've tried everything, and nothing works for me when my writing goes stale; I just have to write through it and try not to let my own staleness shut me down. Reading other writers in their freshness just makes me feel that I'm worse in comparison. I do read Otis Ferguson to try to restore myself to good humor, however.)

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[dickmalone.livejournal.com]

Reading something that pisses me off does wonders. Even if I later cut the pissed-off parts, it tends to get me moving on a subject that's been percolating. Of course, I am a blogger.

Reading really good writing tends to just make me self-conscious and intimidated. Thank god I'm in academia!