
There’s a thing writers call the middle slump. It’s that period in the middle of writing something when the author has lost initial momentum, feels stuck and has difficulty making forward progress.
A post in the writing subreddit frames it well: “The beginning of your story is so far behind you and yet the end is nowhere in sight”.
The idea of the middle slump is pretty universal. There are examples everywhere. From the infamous mid-life crisis to the way 2/3ds of the population feels in the afternoon.
The middle slump on projects
Projects are no stranger to the middle slump.
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