Writing can be Tough

Well, I am a writer and I am currently writing a novel and I am 12 chapters in so far. I have hit my second writers block in 2 months. And I am really rather annoyed, I have sections throughout the entire book written out, I have the whole ending sitting on my desk waiting for the rest of the book to join it. Still yet, my character has come to a standstill sitting on the floor crying wondering why her parents where killed. Yes, sounds kinda bad, well, it's not. My novel is about Charlene 'Charlie' Stewart, a 17 year old girl trying to find the truth behind her parents death three years earlier, her struggle to rediscover who she is after being in the car crash that killed her family, and also took away part of her memory. She is tough, smart and determined. And I am stuck at a this heart wrenching part, not sure how to proceed. Normally I will be lying in bed at night and various thoughts and phrases start to flow, clips of a conversation here, snippets of a sequence of events there. Why is it that all of my best ideas come to me while I am dead tired and need sleep? while the owls are out and the birds are silent? And finally I have found the solution to this problem; of course, I still get all my ideas at night. But now I leave a small notebook by my bed, so when an idea comes to me I can simply role over and scribble it down. Sometimes without even opening my eyes or turning on a light. I found this very helpful when I'm lying half asleep and an idea for a chapter I haven't even written yet blossoms in my mind then turns into an entire chapter, I can write it all down. But when the idea turns into a whole chapter I have to get up and write out the entire thing<laptops are just great for this> so I don't forget any of it, and it itches in my brain until I do write it down. To me writing is art, I was never one for describing things, I couldn't describe to you the color of my own eyes without messing up and stumbling over my own tongue!!! But when I write, I can fill a whole page describing something useless, I could write a whole paper on the front grill or brake calipers of a 1967 Mustang. Sometimes when I write, the words just flow out of my pen, covering page after page with my thoughts and my imagination. I also enjoy writing small one or two paragraph long bits about Love, Family, God or even just about something I had seen that day that made me smile. In my eyes writing can open up a whole new world to you, it can help you understand something you may not have when someone described it to you. Well, good luck to me!! I hope I get my book done in the next year or so, keep trying I guess. And if this writer’s block doesn't go away in the next few days I'm goin' at it with a hammer..............not sure how that will turn out :P