Trials of a writer. Part 1 in what may be a series. My story idea just dried up.

As a writer you get your story ideas from the most random of places. With me it's usually from talking to people online, a throw away comment will start the wheels turning and I disappear into my writing program of choice to start and write.

Over the next days I will sit and type away to get the story down and when not typing I'm thinking about what I will write when I get the chance.
Last week I got an idea and each night I began writing a few paragraphs of a story and then posted it here on steemit. This was a story where I didn't know where it was going but each morning I'd have another piece to post. This wasn't going to be a novel that I'd spend months over crafting but more a short story serial.
Things were going well and people seemed to be enjoying it.
Then a couple of nights ago I sat down and there was nothing there, the story-well had run dry.
I don't know about other writers but I can't force a story, it either flows out of my head or I'm stuck.
I've documents on my computer of various stories that I've started and raced through and then left in limbo. I try to back to them later on, read through them and see if the story has returned. It's my own version of Tolkien's unfinished tales.

Writing can be the easiest thing in the world at times as you struggle to keep up with the story coming out of your head. At other times it's an impossible nightmare where you spend hours looking at a screen, typing a few lines and then deleting them just as fast. Before you know it it's gone midnight and the only thing you saved was:

FUCKITY FUCK FUCK.

Then another story idea pops up and off you go again.