Alan Joshua
Three ways: get away from the work, switching to something else; making the familiar (writing) unfamiliar. A third way I've experimented with is using a special reading program. It reads the text to me so I can close my eyes and listen. There are times when that sparks an image or piece of dialogue that moves me past the block.
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