Conversation and Creative Writing

So you've gone and done it-hit that writing wall we all face that keeps us from moving forward. What can you do? Well, there are [about] a [million] [ways] to get past [writer's block], but today I'm going to focus on conversation.

In my experience, conversation is the wrecking ball that gets me past that looming edifice keeping me from moving forward. At first, my conversations were with other people about the story I was working on, but eventually I managed to internalize it so that I can, basically, have conversations with myself.

Does that make me a crazy? Maybe, but it works.

I believe that it comes from the human impulse to think about what we're going to say next more so than about what the other person is saying. It gets our creative and competitive juices flowing. I also find that, in conversation, people are more likely to think about the other person's perspective on what they might say. This is like stretching your creative mind to accommodate other points of view, which is helpful unless you're writing as yourself. 

In either case, starting to think "what would so-and-so say about this?" when I'm writing is like opening the flood gates and letting ideas flow forth.

In the end, people are story tellers and when you're talking you're telling a story of some kind or another, usually tailored to the person sitting in front of you, or in your imagination.

Does anyone else out there in the great, wide internet have any other tried-and-true methods of working past writer's block? Or maybe like to share an interesting conversation that got your ideas flowing?