Yes. I am usually prolific writer, often pounding out 10,000 words on a Saturday or Sunday, and on some weeknights after working all day as a military education counselor, I’ve hit 4,000. Then, it hit, writer’s block big time!

Just when we were due to leave for our week-long vacation at our family’s cabin, that is when the big WB hit me hard.

I believed the cure was pine walls in the middle of a pine forest. I was wrong. It doesn’t mean I wasn’t productive, I was. I just didn’t pound out as many episodes for my two in-progress stores, “Mrs. Maguire” and “Miss Blue Skies.”

Most of time, productive time, was spent editing the first of my series, “An Operator’s Daughter – part I” for eBook with the goal of uploading it to Amazon and making it available for Kindle Unlimited. But a week in the woods was not long enough; it is still longer than “War and Peace” or “Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire.”

Upon returning from vacation, it was back to work, and we are short-handed at the Stone Education Center. I love my day job or as my husband calls it, “the jobs that helps pay our bills.” I feel like I make a difference in the lives of soldiers, recent veterans and their dependents each day in finding the right fit to begin or continue their educations. But yes, it means I need to be productive once I’m home, pounding out episodes for the serial fiction I publish on Kindle Vella.

So, what is cure to writer’s block?

For me, it was to let a story out of my head two of my characters have been feeding me in my dreams; the story of Ashton’s cousin, Simone Angelique McAllister–yes I gave a middle name, and what has become her love interest, the swim buddy of Ashton’s husband Dustin Maguire, Raphael Bryson Cafferty.

Check it out on Kindle Vella where the first three episodes of every “Vella” are free.