Dear Writer Guy,
I always get stuck in the middle of my books. I write like twenty chapters and then I get writer’s block. Do you have any advice?
Sincerely,
Zakariya R.
Dear Zakariya,
A sagging middle sometimes results from not having a challenging enough goal for your hero to achieve, or not throwing enough conflict into his/her path. Other times, the problem …
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Month: February 2020
3 ways to handle rejection
Rejection sucks. No bones about it. And it sucks for every writer, whether you’re pre-published or world-famous. The prolific Isaac Asimov once said, “Rejection slips, however tactfully phrased, are lacerations of the soul, if not quite inventions of the devil — but there is no way around them.”
It’s easy to lose heart in the face …
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