HUNTINGTON, W.Va.(WSAZ) -- To tell a story and tell it well is every author's goal, but when writer's block hits, a good storyteller learns to get creative.

For one Huntington writer, adding a little fun to the equation was just what he needed.

Toys like plastic model cars can bring back childhood memories.

"Sometimes we get so serious about art and writing and music and things like that, and we forget that we're supposed to play," writer Matt Wolfe said. "Almost like children again."

Playing is the exact thing he has been doing to avoid writer's block.

"In a sense I was actually doing a physical pre-writing or brainstorming on my countertop," Wolfe said, "and I would jot down things I could use in future chapters."

Another writer says this is a way of visualizing as she took pictures of Wolfe's hands-on approach to writing in Huntington's Ritter Park.

"I think it really works," writer and photographer Beverly Delidow said. "For me, it's not so much with prose or fiction, but poetry. I think about poetry the same way I think about photographs; they're snapshots."

Those snapshots helped these two artists get published in "Writer's Digest."

"It feels like I'm giving something back," Wolfe said, "the idea I'm giving back to a community where I got many ideas before."

"Anyway you can look at your subject in a slightly different fashion, it may jolt lose the creativity that you're trying to bring forward," Delidow said.

The two say their creativity has been rewarding.