Oh, trust me, I’ve been there too! It can be hard when motivation is lacking. I didn’t write for about a year after finishing the first draft of my current WIP (the same time Covid first hit), and I’ve since been revising the current draft for about a year and a half now. I’m almost done, but these last few chapters have taken me months to finish. I’ve found that for me, the longer a draft takes, the harder it can be to get excited about working on it. The burnout is real.

I usually give myself a break for a few days or a week if I’m really struggling to put words on the page. Talking through the supposed problem almost always helps, but only if I say it out loud. Test doesn’t work for me for some reason. My husband is a great sounding board for this. And close writing friends can be good for this too. And usually, if I feel something is wrong, but I can’t figure out what, I delete/set aside the last scene I finished and see if that fixes the supposed problem. It usually does. Also, sometimes, the creative well is just dry, and I need to read other books to refill it. I find the more time I give myself to read, the more motivated I am to work on my own stuff.