I can relate to this all too well, especially the part about characters STILL hanging around in the cockpit of their ships--do you have any IDEA how many half-written scenes I leave my characters in? Good LORD.

So, um, yeah, not really much help to offer, but I did a lot of very sympathetic nodding as I read this. If I had a Battalion of Sharp-Toothed Gnomes I would mail them to you, so they could sit around your chair and threaten to nibble your toes if you don't write.