Plot, Chars & Research as an Obstacle to Writing?

[jarandhel]

After a long hiatus, I'm trying -- once again -- to become a writer of fiction.  This has been a longstanding goal of mine, but things always seem to get in the way.  Never enough hours in the day, right?  But after a while, that stops being an explanation and starts becoming an excuse.  I've seen that, and have started pushing myself to write again.

( Thing is, it's not happening. )