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winters_queen) wrote2013-02-04 02:23 pm
winters_queen) wrote2013-02-04 02:23 pm
When to say goodbye
I have a question that I wonder if anyone could help me answer. I've been working on getting my writing in order, complete with all the half-finished stories I started in hopes of getting my writing on track and not so chaotic in regards to trying to get published.
When do you say good-bye to a story and stick it in the drawer to never see the light of day because it is just that bad? I pulled out the story I did for NaNoWriMo in 2004 and was thinking of going over and seeing what could be salvaged and if it is even a viable story for something. This story had been recovered from a hard drive crash so I was seeing what I would need to reformat in the terms of wordage.
I saw glimpses of where I needed to think of different names because some were too close to each other and a bit of a character change from semi-evil to semi-good. And the abuse of ellipses, oh the abuse. I cringed looking at it.
I'm half debating just slipping it back into the stack to be forgotten about or not.
When do you say good-bye to a story and stick it in the drawer to never see the light of day because it is just that bad? I pulled out the story I did for NaNoWriMo in 2004 and was thinking of going over and seeing what could be salvaged and if it is even a viable story for something. This story had been recovered from a hard drive crash so I was seeing what I would need to reformat in the terms of wordage.
I saw glimpses of where I needed to think of different names because some were too close to each other and a bit of a character change from semi-evil to semi-good. And the abuse of ellipses, oh the abuse. I cringed looking at it.
I'm half debating just slipping it back into the stack to be forgotten about or not.