How many times have you started out with a project and left it mid-way or felt that it wasn't such a great idea after all?
In the past five years that I've been writing, I gave up on 5 such works that I thought would make 'good' reading material. I had the whole story formed in my head, I was feeling confident about it but when I started to pen it down *drum rolls* all I got was a blank paper in front of me.
I was wondering whether that happens to a lot of other writers as well? I know that Nicholas Sparks' first two novels didn't get to see the light and even 'The Notebook' was found in a literary agent's 'slush pile'. So, maybe it's not so bad after all..
It never bothered me before but I was going through my work last night and the number of stories I had written bothered me. Or maybe it is the fact that I'm young and not experienced.
Is it an issue? I don't really feel that I've lost my 'writing mojo' even though I've had writer's block a few times.
I had lots of ideas that went no where and books I didn't finished because it just didn't work, but now I've been working on the book I am now since I was 18 (24 now) because this is the project I see me finishing
I don't abandon any of my stuff too. I used about 13 poems I wrote in my free time and based a whole novel on that later.
I just don't like to see my work piled up in a corner, covered in dust (if you know what I mean).
@Victoria, I like your attitude when you say, "It's merely 'resting' until I can see it with new eyes." :)
I'm the only writer I know of with a compulsion to finish everything I start, but that doesn't mean I don't have a hard drive full of unfinished stuff. I just don't see it as abandoned. It's merely 'resting' until I can see it with new eyes.