7 ways to navigate the middle of your novel (and maybe your life)

I'm in the muck and murk of my novel, otherwise known as "the middle".

The middle is a difficult place. It's hard to sustain tension. It's easy to get lost.

And I got lost – which manifests itself, for me, in writer's block, like a big hand rising out of my subconscious to smack me on the forehead and stop me in my tracks. After some frustration and a hell of a lot of procrastination, I let my boyfriend drag me to a yoga retreat in Big Sur ("Will there be chanting?" I a...