I'm stuck, now what?

Ixora found along the sidewalk in my neighborhood. Writers often ask others, "Are you a plotter? Or are you a Pantser?" I prefer the term "pantster" myself. It's weirder, but easier to say. A plotter is a person who outlines his story, sometimes meticulously, before he writes it. A pantster sits herself down at the computer and starts writing. Either way, the assumption is that at the other end of the process, a novel is born. I have met an author who does in fact create a highly detailed outline for each novel he writes. The problem with this guy was that he insisted that you also had to do this. It's the only way, in his mind, to write a good story. I, on the other hand, have myself sat down and written a book from start to finish without an outline or a basic plot idea. I knew a few things that were going to happen. And I knew the scene that would end the novel. But the rest was writing by the seat of my pants. The end result is Camelia , a story told