Letting Your Characters Do the Writing

You sit at your keyboard and stare at the blank screen. Oh no! It's the dreaded writers block. Racking your brain, you try to think of the next scene. You study your carefully constructed outline and all of the notes that you made over the last several days, weeks or months.
What would the next logical step be? Where does the plot go? What would I do in this situation? What's next? Okay, now try this. What would he/she, The person in your story, do next? That's right. Them. Those guys on the page. What kind of people are they? Let them drive the plot. Try getting inside the characters head, even if it is someone you can't stand. If it is a masculine hero, don't even think about how you, or any normal schmuck, would react in the action scene. Turn the man of action loose, or if it is someone more meek, turn the mouse loose.
What I am trying to say is, simply turn the manuscript over to the characters or that place where the creative stuff comes from. Let them flow onto the page. Don't try to control them. This could help with writers block. At least it worked for me.