Another Look at Writer’s Block
I’ve been doing some thinking about writer’s block lately, mostly because I find myself in a situation where I cannot move on any of my fiction writing projects, and I thus consider myself blocked (though in truth there is nothing stopping me from working on my novel; nothing but a lack of interest on my part). I’ve come to a rather interesting take on my form of writer’s block. In my case when I say I have writer’s block I usually mean I am lacking some solution to a problem in my story.
At present I am at a loss for some key plot points in one of my stories. I also only have a vague idea of the characters involved, but they will grow as the story takes shape. Actually, in most of my stories my block has to do with plot (I always struggle with plots). I either don’t know how to get my characters on to the next point in the story, or I don’t know what the next point will be, or worse (but far too often) I don’t know what the end of the story looks like.
Can I call what I have writer’s block? Am I just in search of a story worth telling, or do I really have some kind of block? I consider myself to not be blocked, but to face challenges of getting characters to act within their nature and yet still move along the plot I want to tell. Although I don’t always know what that plot is.