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One way to cure writer's block...
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/health/article-2518113/How-getting-sweaty-banish-writers-block-People-exercise-regularly-better-creative-thinking.html
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It also depends on input, you can't be creative unless you are also dabbling and taking in input in your chosen field, and reading is what we need to do, and the better the reading, the more it lifts your own writing.
And I also believe that input from other creative pursuits, either from observation or doing also helps other creative outputs.
PM, you have these inputs.
But keeping yourself moving isn't boosting creativity per se I don't think, I think it's keeping your mind active and more able to come up with something and keep coming up with something because you are alert, and concentrating for extended periods.
But seriously I agree with Liz, I think it's more about staying alert. Too much exercise could make you tired and unable to concentrate. But just getting away from writing and doing anything that doesn't involve mental exertion and leaves the mind free to think (daydream) spontaneously can produce creative sparks; and exercise of any form, even just a walk, fits the bill.
Losing weight quite pleasantly and I can see where it's coming off which is encouraging.
Plus I am going for walks more than I used to. I walk every day, sometimes twice.
We're still waiting for our granddaughter at uni to learn to pace her partying (and spending) !
Pursuing physical exertion is, sometimes, also best means of releasing tension.
Times past, having endured a particularly frustrating need to apply diplomacy in professional negotiations, being able to demolish a brick wall or similar was most therapeutic.
There are no walls left to demolish but vigorous strides of walking help focus the formulation of descriptions.