Stalled

I don’t get writer’s block. I really don’t.

I do, however, get stalled now and again.

Like now.

Did I write a 2500 word short story this weekend instead of working on the novel? That would be a yes.

See — stalled. Not blocked. Can still write.

So tonight I’m going to spend more time going back through the novel, seeing where the turnoff point was, where I went wrong, what I have to do in order to get back on track. I suspect it was some time ago, more than a few chapters back. (If it had happened in the last chapter, I would already have figured it out and have been moving forward again.) Either that, or it’s something else. Or both (which what I suspect it is — both a process problem as well as an actual writing problem.)

I don’t think I’m going to finish this novel by the end of the year. I will finish it by the end of January. But — never say never. Who knows what Christmas miracle I’ll be able to come up with?