Soon inertia will begin to loose it's hold and you will regain momentum. We all go through these periods, it is a normal cycle and part of the recovery. It is the balance to the creative burst that will inevitably come at the other end. The difficult part is to remember that we are in a cycle of balance and to have faith. Intellectual work is immediately dated or so subjective that it requires verbiage to sustain it and it is rarely satisfying.
Creativity is an inside out activity.
You can not get there by consciously imposing yourself on the material, but rather you have to find yourself through the material. You have to let go.