Ahh...a novel. ^_^

I haven't even finish one (only in my daydreaming, except I usually forget what was that about as I'm distracted by gold coins and flash photography).

I suggest, what I learn from my fiction class, that you should freewrite often as possible. Freewrite is really just writing whatever is on your mind. You would usually have a topic (say, the description of the warn-torn village) and you would just pour out words about that. Just writing about the story daily, whether it's a scene or about a character, will sustain your motivation for the long run. Good luck! ^_^

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"An intellectual says a simple thing in a hard way. An artist says a hard thing in a simple way."
- Charles Bukowski