I keep a 90-second sand timer and do an “ugly first lines only” sprint with my non-dominant hand — picked it up from a constraints drill a soccer coach showed me, and it unlocks ideas way faster than polishing. What’s the tiniest, almost silly routine you’ve borrowed from another field that reliably breaks a block (mine came after a 7 a.m. field session)?
I do a one-song ‘bad outline’ voice memo walk — @OP Then freewrite 60 seconds — ever tried speaking drafts?
Ninety seconds with a metronome at 120 bpm: one keystroke per click, “no backspace,” only nouns — stole it from piano drills. Matches your 90-second sand timer vibe and it yanks me out of polish-mode; then I take 15 seconds to pick one noun and bang an ugly first line with my off-hand. Ever tried layering a tempo on your non-dominant-hand sprints, @davis10?