Beginners: Burning up with ideas
There are times when a radical clear-out can be just the thing to generate fresh ideas, suggests Adrian Magson
Due to a temporary paucity of decent ideas for a future book and a feeling that walking through treacle might be more productive than staring at a blank screen, I recently went in search of something to kick, and happened on an antidote for this lack of direction: have a good burn-up.
I don’t mean the pedal-to-the-metal, petrol-head kind of thing – impossible where I live anyway unless in possession of a death wish. I mean having a clear-out of all the old paper dross and files which have been piling up for so many years they’ve taken on the ragged appearance of the Dead Sea scrolls.
Great, I hear you ask. So you’re having problems? How’s that going to help me with my writing?