Finding my motivation again

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Writing has been a huge struggle lately.

It's an all too familiar feeling. I get to the middle of my first draft, and I realise that I've fallen out of love with my characters and the plot. Every sentence is painstaking, and my daily word count dries up to a trickle. The voice inside my head says, "This book sucks."

Pushing through it doesn't work because my feelings stem from fundamental problems with the story. The only thing that helps is to go back to the drawing...