There are innumerable things more frustrating to a creative than writer's block. But to be honest, we don't talk about those things - it's not polite.
A personal philosophy of mine is to only worry about those things I can do something about - and writer's block certainly comes under that category. For instance, I'm writing a screenplay at the moment. At 71 pages, I'm more than half done; but lately, my characters have all gone on holiday and not told me to which sunny locale they have vamoosed.
Have you ever seen a writer twiddling their keyboard? It's not a pretty sight, let me tell you. Normally, they say, go on a wander of your own - take a break, take a holiday, but don't take your project. Other people say kick the boxes, which is to say bang your head against that brick wall - as far as your noggin and the creative wall (whose bricks are made of sponge, by the way: don't go Glasgow kissing real bricks, it never ends well) one's a drumstick, the other's a power set, and let your inner Keith Moon have at it. Then take that holiday, and watch your ideas come down on you like a ton of sponge bricks.
Nom-nom-nom, etc. Well, I didn't say what type of sponge, did I?
Both of these are fine and good, if you are of a temperament to avail yourself of them. But there's another way, too - especially useful if you have a bull, a china-shop, some Greek inclinations and no patience. It also counts as one of your revisions, too, for it involves reading over what you've done, reacquainting yourself with your work thus far, making adjustments as you go for things that sounded like good ideas at the time and then, sure as lemons ain't eggs, you'll have fog-lights with which to find your way.
Of course, it's always possible you haven't written anything. But then if your work comes from an idea, examine the idea and thread it into reality by putting something down. You can always change it later on if you don't like it - but the act of putting down brings forth more material, and pretty soon you've got a series written.
Don't worry - be creative x
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"It also counts as one of your revisions, too, for it involves reading over what you've done, reacquainting yourself with your work thus far, making adjustments..." That's like one of the things I do when I have writer's block, Agatha Hergest. I read over what I wrote in the script (while I'm writing the script or when I'm rewriting) and make adjustments. Sometimes I need to go back to the outline and figure some things out. The writer's block usually goes away.