Egg Timer therapy cures writers block

http://www.newyorker.com/reporting/2011/03/21/110321fa_fact_goodyear 

http://www.metafilter.com/102120/HOLLYWOOD-SHADOWS 

HOLLYWOOD SHADOWS

A cure for blocked screenwriters "Michels also told the writer to get an egg timer. Following Michels’s instructions, every day he set it for one minute, knelt in front of his computer in a posture of prayer, and begged the universe to help him write the worst sentence ever written. When the timer dinged, he would start typing. He told Michels that the exercise was stupid, pointless, and embarrassing, and it didn’t work. Michels told him to keep doing it."