Writing fiction on a blog is a very strange animal. If it were a novel you had started and you were NOT blogging it then I would say never stop until it's done. Rework it, rethink it, work on it like a job 8 hours a day til it's done or until you decide to scrap it and go on to something else.

However, this is blog fiction - an ENTIRELY DIFFERENT ANIMAL.

First of all, long form fiction, especially serialized fiction gets nowhere near the attention and interest as poetry (for example). Trust me I know. Poetry is much easier for readers because it takes less time to read. People on a platform like this like to browse. Most are not fiction readers and even the ones who are already have their preferred sources and authors and aren't likely to be on Steemit looking for more. You are far more likely to hook a reader with a poem, a blog about government corruption, or a summary of say a brother's birthday party.

I'm not here to discourage fiction-writing. Quite the opposite. But you have to give yourself some slack. Good fiction writing is a process and many times it results in dead ends for exactly the reason you are running into. Doing it on a blog with the expectation of finishing everything you start is unrealistic. All the fiction I have posted so far was finished ahead of time.

If you have run dry on a fiction project, sometimes you just have to walk away from it. Start something else, especially if you have something that is gnawing at you to write. Don't feel like it's a commitment or a responsibility. It isn't reasonable. I'm a novelist. Trust me on this. I can't code my way out of a shoebox but this is something I know about.

Turn your creativity on something else because you have a lot of it. Do a dream poem or a movie review or whatever moves your soul because that is where you will get a great result.

Sometimes when I'm frustrated like this, what I do is find a really interesting writing prompt to clear my head and do a manual reset. You can find them on contests and poetry blogs of course, but my favorite thing to do is find a piece of poetry that really grabs me, and I try to do the exact same thing as the piece. That might seem like a bad idea, because you would think it will lead to a "copy-cat" poem or short story, but in my case that never happens. It takes me in some different direction when I start writing.

And now I'll let you in on one of my super-secret writing weapons. There is a brilliant man who has an online vlog about poetry and life. He is an amazing career poet and a professor of literature. He has a series called "30 Days Until Done" in which he gives a series of writing prompts with a different theme every month. 1 prompt per day until the end of the month.

Here is an example if you want to check him out: http://www.thewalkingmeditation.com/2018/03/march-20.html

This particular series is his "Walking Meditation" series but whatever he's currently doing normally includes some kind of interesting prompts and you can page forward or backward and find a prompt that is particularly interesting to you because he always has some really good ones.

His name is John Brantingham (my brother), and his talks and writing prompts have led to some of my best writing.

I hope some of this will help you. I know you are under a lot of stress and that makes writing very difficult. But if there is anybody who can help you it's my brother John. He knows about everything there is to know about writing and how to improve it. It's all there somewhere in his vlogs if you search, or you can post questions to him too.

Another thing that helps is a spinach salad with sesame seeds, walnut halves, feta cheese, dried cranberries, chopped mini-carrots, and a bit of balsamic vinegar. Just sayin.