What do you do when you've been butting heads against a project for years and not making headway? I've got this thing I really want to do (see LJ icon) but I can't seem to figure out some of the real important bits. Tone, setting, finalized character designs, a nailed down complete story not just bits of dialog and a vague idea of what happens.

From my very first sketch of her I was like 'this is it.' Not, like, 'this will make me the moneys' but 'this is what I really want to work on.' Then for the years after I've just been asking my brain, "And?"

So, yeah, how do you work though project block?