A Tip for Writer's Block (may Apply to Other Arts).
LET YOUR STORY LIMIT YOU.
Remember that your project is an individual of its own, with its own needs and particular potential, the same way parents have to do about their growing children.
So much time is lost pondering on what the next part of a story should be, which line, scene or word is the right one according to our taste. But there is not only our taste, there almost never is. If you know what your story is about (which should be the first thing you ever figure out) you are already committing to a structure or expectations of what the work has to be. If your story is a scary story, well, you have to scare, to give a very broad example. I'm not sure that any story can truly be about everything, that may be for a philosophical debate,but if we're talking about getting out of writer's block, fewer options are better than all of them.
Writing is often not about doing what you like, but about making your story be the best version of itself it can be.
LET YOUR STORY LIMIT YOU.
If the story is of love, you have to set up the characters, show why they'd mesh well together, have a meetup, etc., and this doesn't mean to be beholden to genre conventions. What we are getting at here is that we all stand on the shoulders of giants, and if a jumping off point is needed because you are blocked, then why not the shoulder of a giant?
And you can subvert, you can avert, you can innovate, but that's not entirely up to you, and that's a good thing! Eventually you'll get to a point where it is the specificities of your own story that are speaking to you. Sometimes you bump into a character that you should feature more, just because they turned out to be so interesting, whatever your original intention was. Let that guide you. Let the characters tell you their lines, distance them from you, play in the in-betweens. Show what makes sense to show, or don't, but now knowing why. Nail down something from nothing.
LET YOUR STORY LIMIT YOU.
