Consider This: What to do when you get bored with a manuscript

The past couple of months have been rather trying for this writer. I have endured the most extreme stress. More stress than I think I have experienced in my entire life: increased heart rate, increased blood pressure, inability to think straight, almost anxiety, obsession, paranoia and certainly no creativity, therefore the inability to write.

It's a long story and may turn up in parts in future books, but for now I can feel happy that I am on the other side of that (I hope) and I can feel the creativity returning.

I have at lest three manuscripts on the go and I find myself wanting to return to them but not knowing where to go with them. So, I have focussed on just one for the moment: Bringer . This is the YA I started when doing my Masters degree.

Why can't I move it forward? I have moved my characters to the main location for the final action but find that the story itself feels very thin and the characters are so unlovable and so undeveloped that I can't bring myself to write the final scenes. The characters aren't ready for them.

And then I realised: the whole middle of the story is missing.

This is one of the faults in my writing. I can start a story and end it, but the middle is always the struggle. So, now some heavy thinking on how the characters need to develop to reach their destination and how their relationship to each other, their surroundings and everything need to change.

It's brainstorming time. Writing to explore and adding layers of meaning.

This is the hard part. But also the fun part. Let it begin :D