I'm the girl who stopped working on the writing of her novel for over a year, or maybe two, because I had no idea how to end it. I am not one to give advice on writer's block. But I guess I'll give it a try.
I'd say first of all, talk it out. Talk out your struggles with someone you trust. That's how I ended up rewriting my entire novel from a different point of view. And finally writing the ending. It also helped that others were motivating me to finish it because they were so excited to read it.
Another thing I personally do when trying to unblock my mind is to write a bunch of crap, just for the sake of writing something. I've written some pretty ridiculous short stories because the idea sounded good but the execution was sub-par.
But, I still wrote. I say just write out what crap you have. You might get something good or possibly it might be an awful piece. But years later you might be able to go back and make a masterpiece out of it.
I have a second book I've very slowly been working on (at literally a snail's pace) and I'm pretty stuck on the whole essence of the story, so I've basically written random parts of it that are at different parts of the story, just to get something down on paper. I still have nothing concrete as far as a plot line but if I can form parts as an idea comes to me, even if it isn't in order, maybe I'll end up with a masterpiece.
Basically, my advice is to write even if what you are writing is just awful and makes no sense. Sometimes crap becomes a best seller.
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