I'm not blocked, I'm just stuck in the slow lane.

Well, here we are, on the verge of a New Year, releasing the old and making way for the new, and so on and on.

I find myself staring down my current WiP, 27 Stages and trying to get the next chapter to unfold. Or, rather, I'm trying to get the current chapter to wind up so I can move on to the next chapter. This is the sort of thing writers deal with on occasion, I suppose: stubborn words, stubborn images, etc.

You see, it's not that I don't have more to write for this story. The problem...