NaNoWriMo Guidance: Getting Through the “Muddy Middle,” featuring Gennifer Albin

The Muddy Middle is inevitable when you’re writing a book—that place all writers get to when the newness of their writing endeavor begins to wane, and the project isn’t feeling so exciting anymore. In this episode Grant commits to trying to make better use of the nooks and crannies of his life, writing even when he has just a ten-minute window, and Brooke confesses that one of her downfalls is needing the conditions to write to be just so. Guest Gennifer Albin, veteran NaNoWriMo writer, has super-helpful tips for getting through the Muddy Middle, and shares how she finds the time and how NaNoWriMo has been a productive and inspiring way to get her writing done.

ABOUT GENNIFER ALBIN

Gennifer Albin, also writing as Geneva Lee, is a New York Times, USA Today, and internationally bestselling author of women’s fiction and young adult novels. Her first novel, Crewel, was a BEA Buzz Pick and a YALSA Teen’s Top Ten choice and was written during National Novel Writing Month. Since then Albin/Lee has gone on to author over fifteen novels and sell nearly two million books worldwide. Together with her sister, she owns Away With Words Bookshop in Poulsbo, WA.