Ashley Jacobs asked Kim Kelly:

Are there certain activities that you find spark your creativity? I know a lot of authors make walking or running a part of their daily routine.

Kim Kelly Hi Ashley. Yes, walking – or any kind of meditative moving – is great for freeing up the mind to wander, and to focus more imaginatively on problems too. Because I mainly write historical fiction, I also love to search through old newspapers and photos, and that can lead to discoveries that then spark new ideas or directions. Another personal trick is to always try to leave myself something specific I need to get on with for the next writing session, so that my creative engine never really stops inside a story – and I’m never staring at a blank page. If I do find myself staring at a blank page, some random free-writing can kick me off – I just write anything that comes into my head – and it often helps unblock whatever it is that might be holding me back.

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