If you’re feeling creatively blocked, why not experiment with a new container? Maybe your short story actually wants to be a poem (or a punk song!). There are times in the artistic process when it’s more productive to put the work aside. To let it rest, breathe, and settle into the form it wants to be. Use your time out to wander a gallery or people-watch behind dark glasses. You never know what will spark a breakthrough in your work. Give yourself permission to bust the maze of your mind.