In order to overcome a recent bout of writer’s block, I sat down and brainstormed some weird ways to get my creative juices flowing again. I’d heard of some of them before, although I’d never tried them, and some I made up altogether.

While they ended up being unexpected and downright weird, these seven writing prompts—and my answers to them—were actually effective in getting my mind moving along creative paths again.

These are the ones that worked for me.

• If you had to wear a warning label, what would yours say?

I must have written dozens of these, but this is the one I liked the best:

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