The email was crack in my confidence--I almost started to cry. I had my thoughts of how it would go if I got accepted. I was ready for that. I was excited for it.

A little bit of dialogue, a scene starter and one word:

In my head,  I’ve kept up with my word count and I’m breezing along to finishing my novel by Dec. 15, 2017. In reality....

Along the way in our writing journey, we fall into a slump. (The dreaded writer’s block.) We lose that thing that keeps us going. Whatever that thing was, it was sparked by something, right?

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...