True menace is hard to write.
Spoiler: Writing a good villain is not about superpowers. It’s also not about backstory. Both of those can help you write a menacing antagonist, but they can also make your antagonist simply silly, or so sympathetic that readers forget to be scared (I’m looking at you, Loki).
Not to scare you, but there’s more than one kind of writer’s block.
There’s the overarching plot kind, which is big and broad and says, “I don’t know what happens next.” There’s the links-in-a-chain kind, which is like a map with paint spilled on it and says, “I know the beginning, and I know the end, and I have no idea how to get there.”
Then there’s the stubborn character kind, which I like to summarize as, “My protagonist is being a butt.”
