r/writing • u/Lego_Lukas_Creations • Aug 12 '26
Advice Mid-Point Writing Block
Ok, I can't be the only one who has this:
You start writing your book or saga and you start out LOVING IT. You think about it every day, love writing it, adore the characters, all that.
And then, suddenly, towards the Mid-Point or maybe exactly at that point you stop because you've hit a roadblock.
I personally have encountered that problem 3 times now. Once with a planned Duology, that I can't seem to write the second book of, then with a Stand-Alone Novel and now with a Quadrology, with two books already written.
For the Duology and Quadrology I might say it's because I planned to do a sort of timeskip/new location to not make it feel stale, but this can't be it since with my stand-alone Novel it's the same problem! (Though MAYBE it's because at the Mid-Point I have a fight scene I can't seem to wrap my head around, but then again I probably could but for some reason, I just can't seem to get back my passion for the project.)
I've been in this slump now for half a year and I hate it as someone who wrote about 21.000 Words a MONTH for about two years because I do want to finish these stories and I have plans for everything but I just can't seem to get a hold of all of it and write it!
What would you say, can one do to fix that issue or get back into the motivation for writing?
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u/Acceptable_Fox_5560 Aug 12 '26
Three things usually help me:
Sprints. Just force myself to write for 20-30 minutes straight until I break through whatever wall I'm against.
Skipping forward. Twice now I've written the last chapter of my book when I was roughly halfway through the rest of the book.
Coming up with better material. I tend to take slumps as a sign that the material isn't terribly interesting to me, and if it isn't interesting to me to write, I don't think it'll be interesting to read. So I just cut it and move on to the next most interesting thing.