Ugh... It's a mess...

[darlingfreak.livejournal.com]

Well, it's day three and I think I desperately feel the need to just start over fresh. What I've been writing is just not working for me at all. I'm expanding an obscure Grimm Fairy Tale called "The Six Swans" into a novelization and what I have is just not working for what I've decided I want to do with it.

How "against the rules" is it to just start over, but not throw out what I've written so far? It's original. I wrote it in November. And every novel has scenes that get lost in the revision process, things that don't work... It happens. But is it that wrong to use them in my word count?

What I'm thinking of doing is just write a heading saying "End of Prologue: Chapter 1" and making a fresh start and pretending the "prologue" doesn't exist.

So, is that acceptable or is that cheating:

Discuss.

Comments

[dannipet.livejournal.com]

Oooh, I really liked that one. That's the one with the girl and her brothers and the sweaters and the evil stepmother of malicious intent?

>> I would like to read one off of that.

But in other opinion, it's completely understandable if something isn't working out. I would go for it, and if it bothers you, make up the same amount of words as this 'prologue' after 50k. That way you can still make the word count if you fall short, but if you make it you can feel like you wrote a consistent 50k of usable stuff.

Did that make sense? oO

To make a long story short: I say keep it. :3

[darlingfreak.livejournal.com]

Cute Icon!

And thank you for the advice.

[darlingfreak.livejournal.com]

Oh and yes, it's a fun story. I plan to play up some of the darker elements and to a truly Grimm (grim) version. The image that stuck with me the most is that the shirts were not finished at the time of the release from the spell and the youngest brother was left with a swan wing for an arm, because his shirt had one sleeve.

Should be fun. *GG*