How to write something good right now

Cattle prods and kinks and expecting great things

A 16th century geometric drawing featured in Public Domain Review

Dear Emily,

I'm in a creative rut and I think you can fix me. I want to write...something, anything. I just ache to write fluently, to be caught up in that glorious flow state where the words just pour out. They don't even have to be good words. In the past, when the writing has been fluid,…