I've sat and watched the cursor blink on the clean white page for a week. Having no direction, my mind wandered toward the family. I killed time by skimming my genealogy page and wham, the proverbial ton of bricks fell. Of course! With real people and events you can write about anything.

You have developed a plot, setting and have even come up the main characters for your latest story. You start to write, but it isn't long before your come to a road block. It's not the storyline; after all you know where you're headed. It's not the setting; you mapped that out before the first word was committed to paper.