I did it! I am unblocked. Ever since September when I finished my last novel rough draft I have been unable to move forward and tackle another story. Well, a little bit of honest feedback and a decision to change my approach and now I'm back in the game!
At the moment, I am doing a rewrite of a rough draft I wrote several years ago. I've always heard that when you rewrite, you should put up the old version and write fresh. Well, as there are many different writers so there are many different methods. I have chosen, instead, to have the old draft nearby and reference it as I rewrite. I'm finding that the method works much better for me because there was a lot to like in the old version and I was struggling to capture that part while fixing the rest.
Well, I'm off to continue working. Just wanted to share.
Posted by Robert Nowall (Member # 2764) on :
Congratulations!
Posted by Alethea Kontis (Member # 3748) on :
Congrats, Christine!
I'm about to rewrite an old story too, but I'm going to try the "don't even look at it" method so I don't use the old story as a crutch. Which is kind of scary and kind of frustrating...either way, it ought to be an interesting experiment.
Good luck with yours!
Posted by Leigh (Member # 2901) on :
I've been tackling the same thing for almost 8 months now, but since I've created a world which I did on a whim, I've gone from a slight trickle to a flowing stream. Hopefully soon I'll be the raging river I once was, being able to write 8-9k words a day
Anyways, congratulations Christine!
Posted by Robert Nowall (Member # 2764) on :
On my own recent experiences with the dreaded W-----'s B---k...I had it, or so I thought, for a couple of years...I broke it by returning to Square One, my old Smith Corona portable typewriter, working the old fashioned way for rough draft, then rewriting the result later. I managed to spit out three stories that way.
And then this summer the floodgates opened---fifty thousand words from August to October. It's flowed to a trickle since then---but is still more than I was putting out before that.
