Take a deep breath and ���

Got the story. Just can���t write it.

Can���t find voice and tone. Can���t decide point (or points) of view, linear or non-linear time.

Usual remedy #1: Walk and ���talk the story��� into digital voice recorder, then transcribe. But voice recorder needs bare hands, so risk frost bite just holding it, and fingers too cold to manipulate it, anyway.

Usual remedy #2: Take a break from the story, work on something else, come back to it fresh, and ��� And that didn���t work.

Usual remedy #3: Write any old stuff until words start to flow, so wrote pages and pages of rubbish (always do, of course) and ��� And that didn���t work either.

Usual remedy #4: Abort! But not ready to do that, not yet, not quite. Still feel it���ll work out in the end. (It���s happened before; always worked out in the past, in the end.)

Meanwhile.

Frustration like a boil.