Writer's Block

Seeing as this is writing, I obviously don't have a 'block'. It's more like a curtain. I can't really tell what comes next, and I'm scared to push through the curtain for fear I'll tear it. (Look at me, all metaphorical...) The point is, I'm stuck. I don't know what to write. I have the lovely draw to get very few plot epiphanies in my entire lifetime and true to that, they aren't really coming through now. I think I've actually only gotten one plot epiphany.

The only plot epiphany I remember getting is about an original character I made in the world of Greek mythology in a community called Fantasy Garden. Isaura is the child of Hephaestus and Aphrodite, a Greek goddess of great beauty and great power in fire and metal manipulation. She's also blessed with an unusually hot temper, and I needed her past to be terrible, I needed her to have done something absolutely horrifying in her anger that would cause her pain for the rest of her immortal life. Then, all of a sudden, I was RPing, like any other day, and it just... hit me. Out of absolutely nowhere. I wasn't thinking about it, I wasn't planning for her, just out of somewhere it hit me that Isaura caused 9/11, not planes. And that's what i wrote, and it worked better than any plot I could have brainstormed myself.

After that moment, I've been dreaming of another blessing like that one, for an idea to just hit me in the head and settle there. But it's gotten much worse recently. Yes, I've been busy, but it's like my mind is just... empty. Like someone went oyt and stole my creativity. Don't get me wrong, I can do short things all day, whip out little short stories like I did with Kizerna (See a few posts ago). Those are simple and quick, just throw in a load of descriptive words and you're done. But long stories, big plots, things that have a plan, those are getting really difficult for me to do. I just can't think of any good plot twists, no matter who I share it with. My ideas end up being at best overused, at worst cliche.

So, I'm in need of your help. How do you solve writer's block? Do you think it's possible to cure writer's block? When have you had a good plot epiphany? I'd love to hear from you, for goodness sake, there's 700+ of you! It really means a lot to comment with a simple sentence or even just a 'I read it'. It makes me feel so happy inside that you spend time with me, even for a moment.

Yours hopefully,
~Mimi Gordon