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Try something well outside your normal comfort zone.

I have - I thought it was going well but have put it on the back burner for the moment

Try something well outside your normal comfort zone again. Never hurts to have another idea in that zone.

Well I've tried to go down a route of Alice in wonderland (my take on it) lots of interesting ways I can take it but feel it would only be me that understood it couple of chapters in and the confusion has already set in with trying to create a world that we all know but with a Grimm spin

Then got a couple of chapters into a strange one (Thanks to gene.sis) and things started to go well but again reached a stage of stagnation

Then began work on an asylum one - reaching at the sucker punch theme but it all got lost.

Ok, if you've tried outside your comfort zone and gotten nowhere, see if those stories have anything in common other than being outside the comfort zone, and try again, eschewing that(/those) common element(s). If all they have in common is being outside your comfort zone and written by you, then it is time to return to the comfort zone.

Just based on a quick glance at the listed ideas I note that they all seem to feature hallucination/psychedelic/dream-image/insanity themes, perhaps that's the common element that's giving you trouble?

Yes it's the mood I've been in but obviously not enough, or don't have the imagination for it.....

I'm tempted to do another Jessica’s Choices as I like the little universe I've built with her but I would also like to finish one arrghhhhhh!!! Lots of balls in the air