Finishing the Next Chapter (After a Writer's Block)
Thank God! I managed to surpass the writer's block I had on that one part of the story (the part that took place during the dust-chase) and move on. I did this by, ironically, just skipping that part entirely. I realized that part of the reason that I was having writer's block there was that I couldn't think of anything interesting or logical that could happen during the timeframe in question, that would extend the plot point I had in mind to the length I had imagined for it. Indeed, there were numerous easy and somewhat interesting ways to move the story beyond that point and onto the next, the simplest and most straightforward of which I took in the end. The reason I was so hesitant to do this at first was really that, to be completely honest, I had sort of become fixed on a specific tone or pacing and was pretty much just pulling an authorial fillibuster until that part of the story was the right length... actual content and plot be damned. As soon as I gave that up, eve