I was on a plateau a few days ago. I started getting kind of bored of my lack of creativity and what not. Then it came flying at me like a brutal fist punching my lights out. So I talked to myself through the night about what I've accomplished vs what I haven't and came to the conclusion that my technique was good for the time and it was time for me to focus more on theory for a while. Thus I'm looking into some more scales and some more chord theory. Furthermore I'm on a roll tonight as well, I just made some bad ass riffing and what not that I'm dying to put into a song. It's brutal as hell.