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How to Escape the Endless Middle of Life
The Endless Middle is the time between when you started your journey and making your dream come true. Let’s talk about shortening it.
Being a content creator is a long journey. You set out to create something from nothing. To be a beacon of light in the darkness of ignorance. And most of the time, instead of lighthouses, we feel more like candles. And our wax is always running out.
As they often call it in novel writing advice, the Endless Middle is the large chunk of content between the beginning of a book and its ending. And the way to escape it is by facing it head-on — and advancing, constantly advancing, even in baby steps. We are all stories. Everything that we are is a story — it’s no surprise that writing advice could be life advice, too.
The problem begins when we don’t know how to bring a story to its conclusion. Let me show you what I mean.
I’m in the middle
There were a few times in my life when I found myself facing hardships. Instead of breaking down, I used to tell myself, “I’m in the middle.”
I read many fantasy novels in my time and got used to reading books of anywhere between 900–1500 pages. It’s no wonder people call my patience…
