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Jolyon Trevelyan
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When you write a story?

Post by Jolyon Trevelyan »

When you write a story does it ever happen that you dislike how it turning out that you just stop writing on it. ?

Or do you cut away the part you don`t like and re write it ?


That does sometimes happens to me. The story i am writing now i really hate the way it has turned out. And i am wondering if i should just stop it and start again. Or just cut away big parts of it and start again from the point were i felt the story was going the way i wanted it to go. And i regret how the stories have turned out and i feel i have made many mistakes how and were the characters are in the story,

Of course as i am only writing for myself i guess it does not matter. But i still want to enjoy the story i write.

So what do you do in these situations do you stop writing, do you start again or do you keep going with the story no matter what.?
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Perhaps decide the area yo like the least and change that aspect. Is the story missing a mental challenge, action, emotion, or some other factor. I find sometimes it's either a character needs to be added or removed, the location of an event needs to change or another obstacle needs to be given to the characters. You could always pick a significant point in your story, have things go in another direction and see if you prefer that story.
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Post by MaryJones »

Yes it happens sometime. but i dont stop writing. I will rewrite it with a good idea. But it takes time to complete that story.
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