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By Josh Hutchison, PhD, director of Logan’s Writing Center Logan University Student Affairs presents strategies for getting unstuck: 1. WIRMI. Many people already use this technique but might not know there’s a name for it. You might think of it as “self-talking” or “breaking it down.” WIRMI stands for “What I really mean is,” and how you do it is straightforward: you forget about phrasing things nicely, you forget about citation and incorporating sources, you forget about your potential audience and logical organization and just write what you want to say but can’t seem to put right. If you find …