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

[13-stories.livejournal.com]

Pretty much anything is acceptable if you say it is. After all, they don't do anything with the file you submit but count how many words it is. On the other hand, if you end up with more than 50k words, you could drop it and just count the words in your new story. Like I said to someone else who wrote 800 words they aren't keeping, use them if you need them and throw 'em out if you don't.

[darlingfreak.livejournal.com]

I think that's a good idea. Maybe I'll just keep them if I need them.