Your brain works better when you are moving around and the blood is circulating a bit. So take a walk, don’t pressure yourself to come up with an idea while walking but don’t loose the opportunity either. Take a cell phone or something capable of recording a voice note, worst case scenario, call your own voice mail, or take a pad of paper.

The break will help, so will the excercise and circulation. If you can’t walk try and find some way to get the blood flowing or at least get a change of scenery and background noise.

Alternatively, and I only recommend this about once every other year (every three if you work in an office or cubicle), take your computer keyboard (if you have a laptop and no detached keyboard this one will not work). If its not a wireless keyboard, snip the wire off. Then take your keyboard to the nearest half pipe and drop in on it a few times. If you don’t have a half pipe, you can just stand in your cubicle practicing kick flips with your keyboard.

This will definitely give you something to write about and it may even get you a couple days off, which will help even more.

I’ll stumble a few dozen sites in a niche or interest and eventually I’ll get some ideas on writing about a particular sports figure, some new science technology or something as simple as teaching a child to ride a bike.

thx Andy

Basically it collects search phrases from inbound search engine referrers and you can look at them and use the phrases as an inspiration to write an article.

HowTo: Use SE phrases for Copywriting Suggestions

The more statistical SEO vision of the tool is that you can see and choose SE phrases which are not so successful on your blog to achieve a wider audience by writing an article for the not so well ranked or used keywords.

Of course you can reach the same effect by meditating about your keyword stats in PMetrics