The Hidden Signals Your Novel’s Momentum is Fading — And How to Ignite It Again
Once you’ve done that, your reader will care about your character. And the reader will even care about your character’s backstory.
You might be losing steam because:
You’ve gotten stuck on rewriting the first few scenes over and over again.
You’ve tried to plan out your whole novel, when your brain isn’t wired that way.
You can tell whether you’re in revision heaven or revision hell by asking whether the story is getting better. (And also, whether you’re enjoying it.)
Bailee, it’s possible you’re in revision hell. New writers often get caught in revision hell by writing a few scenes, then getting them critiqued, then rewriting the scenes, then getting them critiqued again, and doing that over and over forever.
