I'd first like to say you are an amazing writer! Reading your books inspires me in so many ways. I'm an aspiring writer and I wondered, have you ever started writing something you really liked, and then just suddenly lost all interest in it?

It happens to most writers, I think. There are several reasons for it. 1) The story really just doesn’t work. 2) It doesn’t seem as good as it did when you started planning it 3) It hits the point of becoming “work” rather than “all fun and games” :)

If it’s # 1, then stopping is a good idea. But 2 & 3 are just normal parts of the writing process. I used to quit many novel ideas early in the draft, but I’ve learned that I was giving up for reasons 2 & 3. So I haven’t done that in many years. I do, however, sometimes quit short story and novella draft. In those cases, because I haven’t been working on them long enough to experience 2 & 3, I know the issue is 1 and it’s time to find a new idea.