How to Break Through Writer’s Block

This morning my author friend P.J. Alderman and I were whining to each other about the problem of getting bogged down while writing a new manuscript. We were both trying to climb out of the dreaded “muddle in the middle.” This happens to most authors I know–we have already planned out the stellar endings for our books, but somehow we always fall into a bog of quicksand as we race down that path toward the finish line.

Over the years, I’ve developed strategies for helping my brain break out of...