You know, you just finished a really big project. It might not be a bad thing to take a bit of time.

Sometimes I'll work on character stuff - like, if I'm totally stuck on writing actually narrative, I'll pick out some sort of drabble, or something that's not necessarily related to what will end up in the story itself, but will help me explore a character's background or flesh them out someway. Sometimes it's easier than the narrative and I feel like because it is fleshing out characters, it's not completely pointless.