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7. Repeat prior successes. Remember how you successfully started or completed something earlier in your life, and reuse that strategy.
8. Do it wrongly. Try writing your piece very badly. You may find you've created a halfway decent version with hardly any effort.
9. Start typing any old thing. Someone in one of my seminars got started every morning by typing
Gettysburg Address ("Four score and seven years ago..."). Before end, she'd always segue into what she really wanted to write.
10. Visualize. Close your eyes and imagine your book or report completed, with a beautiful cover. In your mind's eye, open it and begin reading. Write down what it says.
The above is excerpted from "No More Writer's Block! Become a Prolific Writer," a special report by Marcia Yudkin that details ten ways to balance discipline with inspiration and introduces you to five techniques that allow you to get a lot of writing done in a short amount of time. More information: http://www.yudkin.com/reports.htm
