When the Story Won���t Materialize

What do you do when the story you've been thinking about won't materialize?

Have you ever had the experience where an idea for a story is floating around in your head and you know it could lead somewhere but it doesn���t? It seems that no matter what you do the full story won���t materialize. This happens to me a lot. In an attempt to capture and cage these ideas I���ve written hundreds of thousands of pages of beginnings and middles, endings, character sketches, etc. with the hope of advancing a