Sometimes You Got To Keep It Simple...
I've been on a writing roll recently with novel #2 "THE SHIP". I mean I got some serious wordage down, like over 10,000 words in a couple of days, which I thought was impressive. But then it happened... I hit a wall. Not literally of course, just figuratively. My story suddenly ground to a halt and I had no idea how to get out of the corner I'd put myself in. Sometimes, writing can be like going through a maze. You go straight, come to a junction turn right, go a ways, make a left, straight, another left, etc. and you really feel like you're making progress. In fact, you'll be out of this thing in no time... then you come to a dead end and you have no idea what went wrong. Sometimes, you can pull out a hammer and chisel, or a huge drill like Wile E Coyote in the old Roadrunner cartoons and make your own way out. At first I pulled out the ACME Super-Atomic Laser Drill to get out of my current dilemma and get the story moving again. ...