I have a question for more experienced writers, because I've been encountering a blockage recently.

Context: I've been writing a CYOA recently. The first thread went on for month, but the second only lasted a few days until I woke up to it archived. I feel like the reason engagement died was because there was a major event coming up, and instead of writing it, I started stalling on something pretty mundane because I was struggling to think of how to pull it off in a satisfying manner. I think it killed engagement. In spite of all the foreshadowing I've created for ponies and places I want to get to, the crow area has so far been the majority of the CYOA's runtime.

The actual question: How do you usually overcome that sort of mental barrier and make sure that the story progresses? The best option I can think of is "stop caring and just make it happen, even if it sucks," but one issue with CYOAs is that you can't really revise things later on.

Maybe I'm just asking the wrong question, though. The issue is probably right behind me, screaming at me to notice. That or I'm hyper-focusing on trying to explain something that was actually just poorly timed bad luck. Should I just hiatus the CYOA and come back when I've actually written shit rather than run a story off of bullet points? At first I was hoping it wouldn't be obvious that I'm inexperienced, but then I sort of ended up doing everything that makes it obvious one is a first timer.