I wonder how many times i've put Aaaargh as the title of a blog post. I'm at my standard point in a book where it appears hopeless and all is lost! I get to about 20k words and suddenly it seems like shit. I've introduced the characters, the conflict, and then what the hell do I do next?

What I do is send it to Crusie and Lynda Ward and beg for advice. They both say it sucks dead toads, but then, books usually do at this point. It's the roughest of rough drafts, complicated by my frozen should...