User blog comment:BeautifulSnowfur/How To Finish A Story/@comment-34633311-20160106103701

Heh, remember that character that I made for that fic you mentioned?

I literally love her to bits so I've started a draft of what will (hopefully) be a novella.

If it works and it's published, yay me! One of my greatest dreams is to be a sucessful author, and in some sense, I already am. Anything we've got here is a start. We keep working to improve our writing, and eventually we're quite good.

Personally, after a bout of writers' block, I think about where the story stands and think about how past actions might affect a character's future.

Ex: (This is an actual point in my draft) Lapis is at a point where she's just got bullied by the school bully. In her anger over the nicknames she's been called, she punches her locker door - and her hand's briused!

There we have a situation where the action's just right. But what happens afterward?

This is a point where I ask myself, "Who is this character? What are her likings and dislikings? What is her personality like? If she was in (insert situation here), how would she react to (insert detail about situation here)?" Then I'll think about the placement to the story and the reaction by the character, and poof, I'm writing something again.

Hope this way helps! This is one of my personal ways of getting over that "What should I do now?" method.