{"id":99342,"date":"2026-10-13T14:50:29","date_gmt":"2026-10-13T18:50:29","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/?p=99342"},"modified":"2026-10-13T15:06:04","modified_gmt":"2026-10-13T19:06:04","slug":"5-writing-tools-to-get-unstuck-caplan","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/2026\/10\/13\/5-writing-tools-to-get-unstuck-caplan\/","title":{"rendered":"5 Writing Tools to Get Unstuck [Caplan]"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong><a href=\"https:\/\/wondertools.substack.com\/p\/5-writing-tools-for-getting-unstuck\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">5 Writing Tools to Get Unstuck<\/a> <\/strong>&#8212; from wondertools.substack.com by Jeremy Caplan<br \/>\n<em>Dictation, writing sprints, mind maps, AI interviews, and folded paper<\/em><\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p class=\"header-anchor-post\"><span style=\"color: #ff6600;\"><strong>The hardest part of writing is the first 10 minutes. Get past that, and momentum kicks in.<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 40px;\">Having gotten stuck and unstuck a lot over the past 325 weeks of writing this newsletter, I\u2019ve found a few tricks that help. Pick one to try, and leave a comment to share what <em>you<\/em> do to get unstuck.<\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 40px;\">As a little experiment, I\u2019ve made an <a href=\"https:\/\/wonder-tools-get-unstuck.silverboat.chatgpt.site\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Unstuck Studio<\/a> page to accompany this post and to help you get unstuck playfully.<\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 40px;\">As Daniel Pink explains, starting comes first.<\/p>\n<blockquote style=\"padding-left: 40px;\">\n<p style=\"padding-left: 40px;\">\u201cAction precedes motivation, not the other way around.\u201d<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>5 Writing Tools to Get Unstuck &#8212; from wondertools.substack.com by Jeremy Caplan Dictation, writing sprints, mind maps, AI interviews, and folded paper The hardest part of writing is the first 10 minutes. Get past that, and momentum kicks in. Having gotten stuck and unstuck a lot over the past 325 weeks of writing this newsletter, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[356,32,533,63,419,25,195,321,367,11,90],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-99342","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-artificial-intelligence-agents-llms-and-related","category-education-technology","category-experimentation","category-google","category-ideas-teaching","category-journalism","category-tools","category-united-states","category-vendors","category-vision-possibilities","category-englishwriting"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/99342","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=99342"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"http:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/99342\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":99354,"href":"http:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/99342\/revisions\/99354"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=99342"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=99342"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=99342"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}