If you have writer's block, the best cure I have found is a shower.
Not because you smell of despair.
I think that shampoo companies have inserted a creativity juice that comes when you massage your head. Spend the whole shower thinking about your book. Think about what you want to happen next. Think about what your characters would do in the shower. Do they sing? Do they wash from the head down, or the feet up? Would they prefer a bath? Or don't they bathe? Is there mold in their shower, or is it pristine?
Sometimes thinking about things like that leads to other inspiration, or simply working over a few different possibilities for certain scenes helps give you juice to dry off and write. Or you could skip drying off, if you need.
The best thing about shower-plotting is that there are no distractions. No one coming to interrupt you, no phone calls, no internet beckoning. Now if you'll excuse me, my wet hair is in a towel, and I still have a few hundred more words to write.
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