Sometimes when you lack inspiration or motivation to write, or when thoughts and ideas just aren’t coming to you as fluently as you would like, it’s actually best to take a break. If you force yourself to keep writing so often, then it might become something unenjoyable, a drag, something that you feel like you have to do instead of wanting to.
So maybe you should step back from your pen, from your pencil, from your moleskine, and devour some ideas. Go check out as many poetry/short story/fiction/whatever kind of books you like from the library, and just spend a few days reading through those. If you find phrases that you like floating in their pages, write them down in your notebook. If you suddenly get ideas, or if phrases of your own pop into your head while reading, write those down too.
Trust me: whenever I feel like I can’t convey my thoughts well enough, I just stop and read. And then it’s not unusual for me to fill up three or four pages of my notebook with little snippets of writing and inspiring phrases.
I, too, used to be stuck in a rut with my writing. So you know what I did? I went in a completely different direction. I discovered slam poetry and I decided to try moving my work in that direction, not exactly like slam poetry, of course, but something like a mix between it and my former style. And I think that the style I developed was more unique than it was previously.
So maybe, just maybe, going in a different direction with your writing would help too. I remember that after reading Richard Siken’s book of poems, Crush, there were several days where I wrote in his style, about loss and blood and broken glass and frantic bodies, and while I wasn’t as enamored with that style simply because I couldn’t do it as well as him, I did enjoy the experience. And it opened me up to new styles and new ways of writing, and I began to experiment more.
Experimenting will help you a lot, too. It’s so important to take risks in writing. Brainstorm a list of topics to write about, things you’ve never, ever written about before, and write about those instead of your usual topics. Just try new things. Experiment, experiment, experiment.
Good luck, and these posts might help you out too:
http://writingsforwinter.tumblr.com/post/39756343247/do-you-ever-get-writers-block-and-if-so-how-do-you-go
http://writingsforwinter.tumblr.com/post/33040030332/i-always-love-to-read-your-poems-notes-and-they-all