You know how you might sometimes get stuck in some sort of creative rut and so you go to your tried/true rut-getting-out-of activities but that pernicious Voice In Your Head says “Oh, like THAT’S going to work” (because all pernicious Head Voices are sarcastic, aren’t they?) and you agree (which is your first mistake, really, but bygones) so then you go to the next rut-getting-out-of activity but the Voice tells you to not even bother and it’s just stomping around in there so much that the rest of your mind just climbs back into bed and pulls the covers over it?

I know I’ve gotten myself out of these sorts of ruts before but maybe I need new ideas. What do you do to break out of ruts?