Rocking with Nano…but how do I keep it up?

This has happened before: I get all jazzed about a project. I write up my outline (generally of just the first half of the book). Then I start turning out pages, and while it's not that what I'm creating is golden, at least I'm creating something to work with. I'm being productive.

And then and then and then…I hit a wall. A stone wall, to be exact, void of any ivy that might cushion the blow.

I fear I'm hurtling toward that very wall with my Nano book. Why? Because I'm cynical. You need a...