This is the part where most people stop

Your writing + The last of the new moon energy

There’s a point in any meaningful piece of writing where it stops feeling clear.

Not at the beginning.
Not at the end.

Right in the middle.

And this last new moon energy?

👉 It pulls you right into that space.

Where what you’ve written no longer feels solid and what comes next isn’t obvious yet…

That’s where most people decide something is wrong.

They question the direction.
They rethink the structure.
They step away to “get clarity.”

But here’s what’s actually happening:

👉 You’re not lost. You’re in the build.

The new moon doesn’t give you answers.

It strips things back so you can see what’s there.

And instead of trusting that, most people leave it.

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I was working with a writer recently who hit this exact point.

She didn’t run out of ideas.
She ran into too many.

Everything felt messy.
Unstructured.
Uncertain.

So she stopped trusting the work.

We didn’t change the book.

We changed how she was moving through it.

Smaller sections.
Stay in the scene.
Keep writing, even when it didn’t feel resolved.

Within a week, she was back in it.

Not finished.
But moving.

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This is the pattern:

You hit the middle → it gets unclear → you assume it’s not working → you leave.

(I know it’s hard to hear for all of us in the middle of it.)

But clarity doesn’t come from stepping away.

👉 It comes from staying long enough for the next layer to reveal itself. And man alive, isn’t it tricky to keep at it?

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Here’s the move (New Moon edition):

Do: write in smaller, contained sections, start something without needing to finish it
Don’t: step away just because it feels unclear or unfinished
Watch for: what begins to take shape. That’s your direction

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If you’re in this part right now, in your writing, your thinking, your work, you don’t need a new idea.

You need a way to stay with the one you’re already inside.

That’s what I write about in The Margin Notes:

👉 how to keep building when the work gets messy
👉 how to stay in it long enough for it to become something real
👉 and how to trust your process while you’re still in the middle of it

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