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[xenith]

I'm supposed to be working on a rewrite of a first draft, but I'm particularly discouraged. All the work that is required to get it from the current state to something other people can read, and for what? Nothing.

*sigh*

"Just sit down and write" isn't working. I've been trying to do that since, when? Late February.

Writing up edits on a print-out so I "just have to type them in" isn't working. That just has me in tears.

Giving up all together seems a good plan at the moment, but I know where that leads.

I don't know what to do :(

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[green-knight.livejournal.com]

undeveloped plot threads, uncertain world-building, inconsistent character motivation

A lot of this sounds like critical writer being critical. How good is your inner critic at judging your ability to fix it? I mean, there *are* writer who get it right or almost-right first time, but most writers seem to do some kind of free forming of story: write something, realise that wasn't quite what they should have written, delete and rewrite and add new stuff; lather, rinse, repeat. The zen part is to accept it as part of the process and to minimise the intensity of the problem where you can - in the next book. For me, much as I hate it, the key is to slow down.

I *know* I can do it. There nothing there I haven't done before.

Whingeing, too, is part of the process ;-)

Why doesn't this come with a handbook?

If the handbook is anything like the computer books I'm currently tackling, all you'd do is throw it across the room in frustration...