It hurt my soul to have to step away from writing. I no longer had the mental capacity to go back to my hold writing habits. I no longer had the energy to put into something I love.

At the beginning of the year I was at point where I wasn’t sure what was next for me in my writing journey. I never thought I would get to a point where I considered shelfing my novel Torque.

In the end, no matter where you are in your book, it comes down to your mindset. We, as writers, have ideas of how we want our books to turn out and it's disappointing when things don't turn out that way. 

Maybe it’s good to start small. But for some of us, we decided that we would start with a large manuscript.Once you finally realize what you’ve done, you’ve already told so many people that you’re working on a novel. You probably feel kind stuck right now...