I guess it's true that all you need is a hammer and chisel and that writer's block will break eventually. For some time now, I've been trying to get past it, but there just seemed no solution that would work well for the novel I've been trying to write (for some three years now, jeez). Now today, while on lunch break with my mind wandering, various ideas from various angles (and I really mean varied) converged on what I believe to be an elegant solution to my problem. Most of the problem stemmed from the fact that the story takes place over nine months or so (very roughly) with a single perspective character, and there are months at a time in the chronology that don't need to be detailed. But making a "time passing" paragraph, or any length, always ended up sounding like "moving along now to the actual story". Now, with two perspectives and a pseudo flashback system (It makes more sense if you read it, but I don't want to discuss everything hear; I'm not great at summarizing), the "skipping ahead", as it were, can be transitioned more elegantly. Now that I've solved that very annoying block, I might be able to actually finish a first draft. And, since there is a werewolf-esque character involved, I might post some chapter up here eventually, If I feel proud enough of it that is.

As to my history of Kriv storyline, "The Civilized Savage", I should have the next installment up sometime this weekend. Kriv's grown up a bit and is almost more than Balasar can handle.