NaNoPrepMo - getting unstuck and unblocked

The thing is that there is no such thing. You just don't feel like writing. But - how to write when you really don't want to?

Take a pause and read something, or watch something. Just remind you of the fact that you love stories and writing.

Write something that has nothing to do with anything. Find writing prompts. Write fan fiction. Write letters to your favorite dead authors. Write an opinion about something you are very passionate about. Write about writing. You have to write when you think you can't, to be able to write, because Writer's Block is a lie, and an illusion.

Work with the background information, world building, character development. Answer all the questionnaires you can find about your character.

For example, some 10 years ago I did this with one of my characters
(Emily Hanlon's interview questions are not available any longer, but there's plenty of questions. I didn't follow her questions 100%, I did it more like a journalist interviewing a person, asking additional questions, and writing down details that weren't asked. That interview inspires me still to write the rest of that story (which I still haven't written)
I interviewed my husband's original character as well, and it turned the book into something quite different from what it was. :-D
Don't forget to interview also your villain and the secondary characters, you will find out a lot more about your story that way, and hopefully also want to write about some of that stuff.)

Go take a walk

Change your environment.

Brew a cup of hot beverage. Or cold. 

Create a daily routine and hang on to it. Get up the same time every morning, and go write. Write a couple of hours. If you do this every day, you won't be having that many doubts.

Write Morning Pages.

See writing as your job, not as art.  

Clean your writing area

Take a shower

Create an outline of scene cards

Fiona Harper's Plotboard

Research a bit more - sometimes you don't know how to write something because you don't know enough about it. Look at how other writers solved the problem.

Start working from ending to beginning. What is the end of your story? What leads to that? And what made that happen? What caused it, then?

Break the chore into smaller parts - don't think it as you need to finish the book, or edit it, or market it, or if anyone is going to want to read it, or like it, think about next scene, next sentence, next word... if you need to rewrite everything when you edit, it's OK. You have to write something to have something to edit, don't you? :-D

Explain your story to your younger self. Or imaginary friend. Or an existing friend, though imagine them if they can't be physically present.

Add ninjas. 

Set a timer to 15 minutes and go check social media. Remember to set the timer, and when it rings, go back to writing.

Remind yourself of why you are doing this. (So write down why you want to write. "To be famous and rich" is as good a reason as any other. Then remember that for you to become famous and rich, you have to write the book.)

Remember, it doesn't need to be perfect. It doesn't need to be good. It just needs to be.