Reddit reviews Novelist's Essential Guide to Crafting Scenes
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I'd recommend buying a book on writing.
I would suggest these as good places to start. If you wanted to pick just one on this list, I'd say go with James Scott Bell's Plot & Structure.
Here's the deal, you don't know what you don't know about your story.
Maybe you're an outliner, maybe you don't know how to build a scene, maybe you don't know your character's motivations.
Writers block is not a lack of a muse, it's your brain realizing that it is short of something and needs some knowledge to press on.
Depending on how you want to approach this, you have to know the basic unit of storytelling which is the scene. Research it, practice it, do it. From there, build your scenes into plot. Or do that in reverse and build your plot and fill it with scenes. Learn how to make characters into people.
I also like wired for story since it fills the gap between plot and scene by focusing on characters and how they fit into story.
Sitting in a chair, putting sentences in front of you is good, doing so with a bit of knowledge is better. Without knowing how to build scenes, make characters, and plot out a story (even as a pantser or discovery writer), you will get discouraged and flail around in the dark.
Listen to the writing excuses podcast and try out their various tips on novel writing, they have a three act structure that is good but their talk on it is crap. This is better.
You can't place up walls well without blueprints, you can't build walls without carpentry skills, and you can't finish a house without effort. Writing a novel is similar.
TL:DR Educate yo-sef. Keep writing while you're learning. Your first draft will be crap, but it will be worse crap if you go into it blind.