Between Fact and Fiction

I have been moving very slowly with this idea for a fiction and in fact have not added much in the past three months. Partly because I have been away for the best part of a month, partly because I have been unwell, partly because I got interested in another less challenging narrative, but mainly because I had got stuck. I had reached a stage where I had absorbed a great many facts about the period, but in relation to the fiction, while I had a small group of characters and ideas of what might happen to them, I had no narrative thrust. I saw them rather static in their respective sets of circumstances, rather than moving on. This is something I have to solve, how to clear the factual ground to allow the fiction plausibly to unfold.