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OP asked "How do you write," which sounds suspiciously like "where do you get your ideas."
I write with whatever is available to me at the moment. I've got notebooks, sticky paper, napkins, cereal boxes, or whatever else happens to be handy.
I tried to keep one specific notebook for writing ideas. I just found it again the other day. It was dusty and had things dated 2k7. How many stories have I written from that: A big fat zero.
When I attended the Superstars seminar with KJA, his last lecture was for improving productivity. For those of you who don't know, KJA is pretty much a whore. He's got so much going on at any one time that I think he may be a direct contender for MoeJoe's writing output.
One of my favorites was: "If the bathroom is dirty, you must write."
Basically, don't put off until tomorrow that which can be accomplished today. Make a game out of it. If you're banging your head against the keyboard, then you're not having fun. And if you're not having fun, then you may as well be pissing on your shoes.
Keep your mind active. That's the best advice. If something isn't working, or if something isn't coming out the way it should, then write something that is. But, for the most part writer's block is a myth. Stories are real. People are fake.
A dentist doesn't get dental block. Imagine if you went to your doctor's office and sat down with the good doctor. They say to you: "I just don't feel like diagnosing your hammer toe today. You see, I'm having a medical block."
That wouldn't work very well, would it?
Just move on. Look at your story with new eyes, take it out of context. There's something there that isn't working. It's like you're driving down a rural road and all of a sudden see a massive roadblock, you can't go forward. The only way out is to backup and find a different way through the woods.
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