Writing Motivation: How to Win the Marathon of the Middle of Your Novel

You’ve written your first few chapters, and you even have your killer ending planned.

Then you hit the middle of your book manuscript, and all of a sudden it’s as if you’re running in sand.

Most who fail at finishing their books tell me they lost their writing motivation somewhere in what I like to call the “Marathon of the Middle.”

If your opener takes up approximately the first quarter of your manuscript and your ending the last quarter, the marathon comprises the middle half.

Yes, it’s hard. ...