I've got the kind of writer's block where I come up with all kinds of snippets of plot points or character attributes, but they never come together as a plot. And, there are some additional things going on in my writing and life that exacerbate this...
1. I'd been working on two memoirs for some time, and have one at the finished stage and the other at second-draft stage. I don't know that either is perfect, but I said everything I wanted to say (satisfying). And now I can't come up with a new idea.
2. I want to do fiction next, and "coming up" with a new world / characters is a different thing than memoirs.
3. I used to be a journalist, which is all about describing the stuff you see and hear in an objective sort of way, which turns in to a big boring infodump if you attempt to do it in fiction.
4. I'm starting a new job on Monday. First time working in four years. (Yay! my kid is old enough for me to do that!) So that's going to wreak havoc on my writing time. But I still want to have that lovely "developing the story" feeling in my mind where I can think about what I want to write the next morning.
So I guess what I'm asking is how do you get from snippets flying in your head to a "the protagonist faces such-and-such a challenge and must..." real premise?
Sorry if I'm not making much sense, but "not making much sense" is how I ended up in this forum.