Hit a wall on a short story about a haunted laundromat

I was sitting at my desk last Tuesday trying to write a scene where a ghost folds a tshirt wrong on purpose, and I got stuck for two hours. So I closed my laptop and went for a walk around the block, and when I came back I wrote the whole thing in 15 minutes. Anyone else find that stepping away actually fixes writer's block better than forcing it?

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patricia_green2112d ago

Oh, isn't that just how it goes though? You stare at a blinking cursor forever then suddenly it all clicks when you're not even trying. I always tell people to just put the phone down and do something else for ten minutes.

piper_reed11d ago

Used to think that was just people being lazy, but honestly you're making a lot of sense right now.