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.
Hi, I used to write children's stories in rhyme (unpublished) and one (Hovis) took me over 2 years because I put it down half way through and couldnt think how it should go. I wrote other stories and then went back to Hovis and was really pleased with it when I'd finished it. It was about a bullying hedgehog but I think if I'd tried to finish it wen I'd frst started it I wouldn't have been so happy with it. I'm now trying my hand at writing novels but again, I have days when I just can't write anything but then after giving myself a break something seems to spur me on so that I can continue. That happened last week when I had a downer on myself about my capabilities but I'm now back to my novel and am pleased with it again even though I decided to make some drastic changes to it. Good luck and keep at it