On Friday I mentioned a NaNoWroMo project that has consumed me for two months. It held such promise but now has ground to a standstill. I had one of those moments where I'm a fraud for calling myself a writer and think the story is total crap.
The question is what is to be done about it? It seems like the harder I work on fixing it, the
more impossible it becomes.
All
writers go through moments like these. I’ve been there a thousand times myself.
It is maddening. One minute you’re up, the next you have no idea how to repair
it.
The
best solution seems to ignore it for a while. Besides the fact that no
solutions is within sight, a few weeks away allows it to stew and work in the
subconscious. That will take a few weeks or longer.
There
are, fortunately, a couple other projects I can turn to. One is a final
revision before shopping for a publisher. The other is another piece that was
put away under similar circumstances. It was finished, but lacking in some way.
Even if I knew what it needed, I couldn’t muster the the zest to do anything
about it.
Time
has passed. I see where it needs to go and I’m ready to tackle it again. Maybe
when I’m done, the issues with the NaNoWriMo story will have worked themselves
out.
What do you do when your
work in progress becomes stuck in mud?
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