What I enjoy most about writing is developing creative concepts. I've learned to be patient and wait for my mind to do what it needs to do.
To be creative you must allow your mind to work behind the scenes, at night while you sleep and while you watch TV.
For example, I'm currently working on my third book, Voodoo Cruise. The plot's origin occurred on a cruise ship when it sailed into Labradee, Haiti.
Labradee is beautiful, pristine blue cove, with a quaint village not far off, often invaded by us and our obnoxious, massive expanse of cutting steel and buffet fed tourists. As we docked, colorfully decorated ferries holding about 10 Haitian crossed the cove to provide services to the disembarking passengers transported to a manmade beach. Turbidity form the ship stirred so much muck that the cove's sapphire clear water became limestone grey, clearly suffocating the a beautiful fringe reef that encircled the village.
I said to myself, there's a story here and proceeded to just stare out at the village for several hours, logging the activity, watching an environmental ruination of this tranquil place on earth, letting it transfer to the depth of my memory.
For several years, as I made my 2.5 hour round trip commute to Tampa, and to keep my frustration level low, it'd work on the story.
What you need is to be patient, continue to work on your concept and allow your mind to do what it needs to do by adding additional information. In my research, I'd learned that Christopher Columbus' ship, Santa Maria had run aground near Labradee. It was parted, and the men left on the beach to fend for them selves. A year later they'd all died.
I studied Haitians and learned they'd practice voodoo. Then WHAMMMMM, while sitting in traffic the entire plot suddenly materialized, and the entire story is complete in my head.
Voodoo Cruise is about a Haitian Village and a Cruise line at odds with each other. The cruise line has hired a marine consultant to negotiated with the village, which is threatening to sink the ship if it doesn't move on. A Tampa news anchorwoman, with her own personal problems, turns investigative report and tries to uncover the story between the village and the cruise line.
The ships name is, The Sapphire Orchid. For some unexplained reason, infertile couples that go on this ship have a very high rate of conception. The higher up on the deck you are the more likely you will conceive. And that's why the report wanted to go on the ship, to have a child.
If being creative is a challenge, try to relax and allow your mind to work behind the scenes and keep feeding it with information until someday it will happen, and you will have an idea that blasts through your writers block to a point that you must write feverously once again.