Regarding writer's block: Just some suggestions.
1) I have read that the act of dreaming and the act of creative writing both use the same resources in the brain. Keep a pad and pen by your bed and write down your dreams as soon as you can after waking up - if you wait too long you lose so much of it.
2) Read back through your story as a sympathetic critic and ask yourself these questions:
- does this action/thing/person have a greater effect on the plot than what I've accounted for so far?
- have I described fully enough how this character would react/respond to this event?
- is there a smell, tactile sense, taste, or sound I could write into this that would enrich the fabric of my story's world?
If you have run out of plot, maybe you need to make the problem facing your protagonist bigger than you've made it so far.
If you have trouble finding the right word, buy a Roget's Thesaurus; make sure it's the hardcover one with over 250,000 words and phrases.
Happy writing!
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