Another writer's block exercise.

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We talked earlier about writer's block hitting and some things to do to clear it up (writing a story based on a favorite song, picking two ideas from your idea journal and combining them). Here is another suggestion to help: Make up a completely fake word and write what it means, how it came about, some fake historic event the word was used in, examples of its use. This exercise is great for forcing the right and left brain to work in tandem which is in short a mental stretch. Also after sometimes it is fun to google the fake word and see if it is a real word after all or if it has been used for anything like a website's name. Example: Wibblite - A follower of Dr. Wibb, a neurosurgeon in the late 1800's who believed conscious thought was independent of the brain and developed a procedure which he claimed opened the mind to higher thinking. His followers would try to have the procedure done to obtain this special enlightenment but due to bad marketing (mindless, drooling members don't make for easy recruitment) and some high level members (who did not have the procedure done to them) being arrested for practicing medicine without a license the Wibblite movement did not carry into the 1900's. Dr. Wibb himself died a pauper in 1905; his last words were recorded as being; "hand me my drill nurse."