'Help! I’ve run out of ideas!'

5 ways to get back to writing when you feel like the ideas well has dried up

Whenever I do a school workshop, a child almost always asks me where I get my ideas from. I understand why – there’s a strange alchemy to what we do as writers, creating something out of nothing. Building castles in the air.

It’s natural to want to search for that spark – almost as impossible to comprehend as the spark of life itself. Where does it come …