Canadian writing teacher Biff Mitchell has an unusual approach, according to an article in The Daily Gleaner. Instead of teaching in a classroom, he takes his students to coffee shops, art studios, and even hot tubs. He says, "The rationale for this is to constantly change the setting to keep the right side of the brain fired up." At these locations, he asks the students not only to look but also to listen, touch, and even taste.
If you feel that your writing is getting a bit stale, you could do the same--find some offbeat locations, look, listen, touch, taste, smell--and then write.
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