Start every single day with an exploration, an 'exhumation' of where you are, your dreams (literally, analysing your night-time journey will enable you to see clearly the path ahead), the ideas you've explored in current projects.

"Morning Pages 2004" is a file I open ever day at 5 am; it is constantly in use as a writer's journal, my 'shrink' to whom I 'tell all', develop ideas, look back at the experiences I intend to 'excavate' for my current screenplay.

Not a day goes by without a number of pages in Morning Pages. An athlete warms up with physical exercises, working out with weights. The writer needs to do just that with a MIND that may be befuddled with sleep/fatigue/disillusionment...but an ongoing record of days/projects/ideas - printed up and put in folders, read to see where you've been, where you're going - is essential to one who hacks'n'hews at the rockface of words words words, as the Bard said in Hamlet.

Put the coffee on, turn on the computer, and like the phoenix rise each morning with words beneath your wings. My tip to fellow writers.