This is a guest post by Ali Luke. She is a writer and writing coach from the UK, and you can find her as @aliventures on Twitter. If you’re struggling to get enough writing done, check out her free ebook How to Find Time for Your Writing (other goodies available there too!)

Whether you write as a hobby or as part of your business, there’ll be times when you feel like you have nothing to say. Perhaps you’ve got to come up with a blog post, but it seems like you’ve written about every possible angle of your niche – or you want to develop a great product idea, but you’re not sure where to begin.

These five exercises will help: