A new way to break the writer's block

Hazel Smith's exercises in word and phrase manipulation were foreign concepts to me. I, like countless other writers have experienced serious blocks. Until now my only cure was to put down the work and focus on something else. This, however, never worked perfectly as I would constantly ruminate on the block even if I was engaged in some other activity. Smith's exercises have given me hope that the next time I simply cannot move forward in writing I can use these techniques and actively but passively get past whatever was holding me back. These exercises differ immensely from Raymound Rousel's technique in that Smith's method is more of a mindless exercise designed to stimulate the thought process using words as a catalyst. Rousel's method is almost scientific in nature and requires a greater knowledge of vocabulary. I am interested in his method and it has created some incredibly interesting work but I can see it taking a writer years to perfect and maybe even longer to get a successful longer piece of work to emerge. I'm looking forward to reading the rest of Locus Solus as I'm enjoying it quite a bit so far. One last thing... It took me a while to fully understand Rousel's method as words and their meanings translate sometimes oddly from French. It would be interesting to see a successful English speaking author use this method so the final piece wouldn't be garbled through translation.