How’s 2025 been going for you?
Maybe you started the year feeling enthusiastic and motivated: this was going to be the year you finished your novel. But we’re close to halfway through the year now, and perhaps things haven’t quite gone to
plan.
Novels often take longer to write than we’d hope—especially first novels. I know novelists who spent upwards of a decade working on their first novel. Taking years on a novel isn’t uncommon: J.K. Rowling spent six years writing Harry Potter and the Philosopher’s Stone, and George R.R. Martin spent six years on A Dance with Dragons (the fifth book in the
Game of Thrones series). But if you feel like it’s taking you forever to finish your novel, it can be really frustrating and demotivating.
Whether you made it a few months into the year before things went off track, or you started strong in January and stalled in February, or you didn’t even make it past the first week of January … there’s still time to make massive progress before
the end of December.
First, we’re going to dig into some (common and very understandable) reasons why your writing plans may have gone off-track. Then, we’ll dig into how to turn things around so that you’ve got a sustainable writing plan for the rest of the year that fits into your life as it is, in all its complexity.
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