Comments on: D is for Disappointment… I mean Delete http://romanticinks.com/2007/11/27/d-is-for-disappointment-i-mean-delete/ Thu, 11 Mar 2010 22:32:40 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.9.1 hourly 1 By: » Blog Archive » Goal, Motivation… No Conflict? http://romanticinks.com/2007/11/27/d-is-for-disappointment-i-mean-delete/comment-page-1/#comment-18749 » Blog Archive » Goal, Motivation… No Conflict? Mon, 17 Dec 2007 09:11:29 +0000 http://romanticinks.com/2007/11/27/d-is-for-disappointment-i-mean-delete/#comment-18749 [...] few weeks ago I blogged about deleting the beginning of my novel and starting over again. According to that indesputable source, me, “Nothing could live up to [...] [...] few weeks ago I blogged about deleting the beginning of my novel and starting over again. According to that indesputable source, me, “Nothing could live up to [...]

]]> By: Eliza Knight http://romanticinks.com/2007/11/27/d-is-for-disappointment-i-mean-delete/comment-page-1/#comment-18611 Eliza Knight Thu, 29 Nov 2007 00:58:39 +0000 http://romanticinks.com/2007/11/27/d-is-for-disappointment-i-mean-delete/#comment-18611 I wrote half of a ms about 2 years ago and scrapped the entire thing, never to look at it or venture the idea again! It was a total pain to start something new, but I'm glad I did. It was really terrible, and I didn't love anything about it at all! :lol: But I have also scrapped major amounts of other WIPs and started rewrites. Hard work, but well worth it! I think it also helps to take a break and then come back to it. Some of the worst "crap" I've ever thought I've written has turned out to be pretty good when I took a break for awhile. I wrote half of a ms about 2 years ago and scrapped the entire thing, never to look at it or venture the idea again! It was a total pain to start something new, but I’m glad I did. It was really terrible, and I didn’t love anything about it at all! :lol:

But I have also scrapped major amounts of other WIPs and started rewrites. Hard work, but well worth it! I think it also helps to take a break and then come back to it. Some of the worst “crap” I’ve ever thought I’ve written has turned out to be pretty good when I took a break for awhile.

]]> By: Emily http://romanticinks.com/2007/11/27/d-is-for-disappointment-i-mean-delete/comment-page-1/#comment-18605 Emily Wed, 28 Nov 2007 23:00:40 +0000 http://romanticinks.com/2007/11/27/d-is-for-disappointment-i-mean-delete/#comment-18605 I wonder every now and then if what I need to do with my current story is to either start something else and possibly come back later, start it all over again or just forget about it. For some reason the writing doesn't flow and I get stuck. But then, with all the school work I don't seem to get much time or energy for writing sadly - but at the same time I don't want to NOT write. If I had to choose I would choose writing rather than school (which isn't necessarily the best choice career wise at this point *lol*) I wonder every now and then if what I need to do with my current story is to either start something else and possibly come back later, start it all over again or just forget about it. For some reason the writing doesn’t flow and I get stuck.

But then, with all the school work I don’t seem to get much time or energy for writing sadly – but at the same time I don’t want to NOT write. If I had to choose I would choose writing rather than school (which isn’t necessarily the best choice career wise at this point *lol*)

]]> By: Haven Rich http://romanticinks.com/2007/11/27/d-is-for-disappointment-i-mean-delete/comment-page-1/#comment-18598 Haven Rich Wed, 28 Nov 2007 13:58:08 +0000 http://romanticinks.com/2007/11/27/d-is-for-disappointment-i-mean-delete/#comment-18598 Lacey that is exactly how I felt with the first rough of my WIP. I loved the characters but hated the direction they were going and they plot they were involved in. So I trashed everything about their history and mixed it all up. So now I have two characters who have changed but in a sense are exactly the same. Only this time, their path is very different. Great topic. Which leaves the only thing left to do: Get to work!! Lacey that is exactly how I felt with the first rough of my WIP. I loved the characters but hated the direction they were going and they plot they were involved in. So I trashed everything about their history and mixed it all up. So now I have two characters who have changed but in a sense are exactly the same. Only this time, their path is very different.

Great topic. Which leaves the only thing left to do: Get to work!!

]]> By: Jacqueline Barbour http://romanticinks.com/2007/11/27/d-is-for-disappointment-i-mean-delete/comment-page-1/#comment-18597 Jacqueline Barbour Wed, 28 Nov 2007 02:01:13 +0000 http://romanticinks.com/2007/11/27/d-is-for-disappointment-i-mean-delete/#comment-18597 LOL, yeah. Er, mine's flounce... LOL, yeah.

Er, mine’s flounce…

]]> By: Lacey http://romanticinks.com/2007/11/27/d-is-for-disappointment-i-mean-delete/comment-page-1/#comment-18596 Lacey Wed, 28 Nov 2007 01:47:56 +0000 http://romanticinks.com/2007/11/27/d-is-for-disappointment-i-mean-delete/#comment-18596 Any significance to you, Jacq, if my captcha is Apoplexy? Any significance to you, Jacq, if my captcha is Apoplexy?

]]> By: Jacqueline Barbour http://romanticinks.com/2007/11/27/d-is-for-disappointment-i-mean-delete/comment-page-1/#comment-18595 Jacqueline Barbour Tue, 27 Nov 2007 23:55:57 +0000 http://romanticinks.com/2007/11/27/d-is-for-disappointment-i-mean-delete/#comment-18595 I've finally decided to consign a manuscript to the Magical Mulch Pile. And though I'm a little sad to think those characters I loved and lived with so long will never see the light of day--the characters who really got me started back on the writing journey after more than a decade's hiatus--there's a real relief in letting them go. I learned a lot from them and enjoyed sharing my head with them for more than a year, but it's time for them to move out and let other people in. It's not like I don't have plenty more stories where that one came from :). I’ve finally decided to consign a manuscript to the Magical Mulch Pile. And though I’m a little sad to think those characters I loved and lived with so long will never see the light of day–the characters who really got me started back on the writing journey after more than a decade’s hiatus–there’s a real relief in letting them go. I learned a lot from them and enjoyed sharing my head with them for more than a year, but it’s time for them to move out and let other people in. It’s not like I don’t have plenty more stories where that one came from :) .

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