Writer's Block on The Purple Sea

You are trying to write a story - The Purple Sea. It might be a short, a novella, you don’t know, but you know it’s good. You know it matters. So you’re settling in to plot it, map the bones of it, and you know it’s got its DNA deep in your own history, but it’s not coming easy, every day you fight a nail spike of writer’s block deep in your brain. But you are certain to either find the inspiratio…