When you are stuck in your writing
Read about the topics that come up in your story. Gather new information, browse websites and articles, let yourself link from there. You can get a new angle, new ideas, new sides of what you wanted to write about in the first place.
Read quotes about topics and themes that come up in your writing. There is a good chance intersing lines, wordings or wisdoms will spark new inspiration.
Talk about your story with someone. Tell them what you can't decide on or about the scene you can't continue or figure out. Discussing and explaining your story to someone can get your wheels rolling again.
Read a new book, find a new tv show or a fandom to get invested in. Notice what you liked and think about why. Maybe some new elements will come up that you will want to include in your own wip.
On the contrary go back to your favourite books, tv shows, fanfictions or fandoms and analyse what made you like them in the first place, what they have in common. If they inspired some things in your own wip then a little repetition might help identify what's not working or what to add to make it work again.
Listen to new or your old favorite songs, notice or look up the lyrics to get insured by lines or the story the song is telling.
Write a diary entry. Even if you don't write a diary, but you are stuck, open a new document and write about your day, what happened to you and how you felt about it. Write how much you thought about your story or what you are wondering about. Just getting your thoughts out there, organising them in the sentences and reading through them might help you to figure a lot of things out.
Take a break. If your wip becomes overhelming or the plot problem seems unsolvable, step back a little and leave it alone. Work on something else, find writing prompts, write out- of-context excerpts for not yet existing wips or don't write anything at all - the break can clear out the jumbled emotions and thoughts and let you identify the problem or continuation.
