Writing Through Resistance (Not Through Pretending It's Not There) At some point in every project, I stop wanting to write it. Not because it's bad. Not because I've run out of ideas. Not because the story isn't working. Just because the initial charge of the new idea has worn off and what's left is work. For a long time I treated this as a signal. The resistance meant something was wrong. Maybe the story wasn't right for me. Maybe I needed a different project. Maybe I should take a break and come back fresh. What I've figured out is that the resistance is just the project settling into reality. It happens to almost everything at around the same point. And the authors who finish books aren't the ones who don't feel resistance. They're the ones who stopped treating it as meaningful information. What Resistance Actually Is The new project feeling is a neurochemical event. Novelty generates dopamine. Your brain rewards you for starting. It does not reward you at the same rate for continuing. By the time you're thirty or forty percent into a draft, the novelty has expired. The reward system has recalibrated. The work now generates satisfaction in a different, slower way, the kind that comes from completion and craft, not from the buzz of beginning. The writers who get stuck at 40% aren't less talented or less dedicated. They're just misreading what the resistance means. They think the low-reward phase is a sign the project is wrong. It's not. It's a sign the project has become real. What I Do With It Instead A few things that actually help: Name the specific friction, not just the general feeling. "I don't want to write" is too vague to fix. "I don't know what happens when she gets to the warehouse" is a problem with a solution. Most resistance dissolves when you identify what specifically is causing it. Lower the bar for the next session. The blank page is the hardest part. If you end a session by writing the first line of the next scene before you close the document, the next session has somewhere to start. The resistance is about starting. Give yourself a start.

New and cheaper??? Ive updated the models in Wordcrafter.pro and am playing with Sonnet 5 to see what it can do. If anyone tries it share your feelings below.

For the last two days I haven't been able to get Crap out of Gemini.. or rather all I've been getting is crap. 1800-2000+/- words is all I can get at a time, none of it very good and it just QUITS. and happily scampers on. I was getting great results out of Gemini 2.5 flash last week, this week nada. Testing other cheap models but they all seem really slow and off this week. Are we in the midst of a robot revolution and missed it??

Opus 4.8, Sonnet 4.6, and other Anthropic models are suffering from overload and elevated error rates. Anthropic is working the issue. Occasionally the LLMs will come back online, but there have been multiple drops and interruptions. This does NOT appear to be an outside attack on Anthropic (via DDS or something). Instead, it seems to be contained to Anthropic servers and related third-party suppliers. Base Claude.AI, Claude Console, Claude API, and Claude Cowork/Code are all affected. Expect the instability to continue for a while. Visit https://status.claude.com to see current status...

This is unedited, minor issues dealt with mostly chapter length. My attempt at a Hallmark Style Romance with something new....Anyone want to guess how much time is invested? At least scan the first chapter or so before making a guess. It helps if I actually post the book too.