Useful Tips To Overcome Writer's Block

1: Have a goal (ie enter a competition or make your own deadlines and stick to them, a chapter a week or a month etc.)
2:  Plan your work. Make rough notes on beginnings, middles and endings, or use a storyboard split into sections(Boxes on one page, to see where you are going at a glance.)
3: If you are struggling to start, then start with the ending and work backwards.
4: Don't sit in front of a blank page or screen trying to force ideas.  Get up and do a boring repetitive task, clean the kitchen, or go for a walk or a run. Employing the body in this way sometimes unleashes the imagination.
5: You can try writing first thing in the morning as soon as you wake up. Keep a journal and a pen next to your bed and record your dreams.
6: Try writing last thing at night before you go to sleep. Recap on the day even if you just list the reasons why you did not write that day.
7: Research. Researching a subject or a location that is associated with your topic of writing will sometimes act as a spur, and can take you in a different direction and actually break the block or take you around it.
8: Don't worry about what you are writing, just write. If it's rubbish at least it's rubbish on a page and you can do something with it. If it's rubbish in your head, there it stays.
9: Never give up if you want to write. Never become disheartened.