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[amarra-jade.livejournal.com]

What do you do when your writing kills your enthusiasm for your story? As far as I can tell, my options are:

1. Push myself to 50K with my current plot. This is what I did the past two years, but I was miserable the entire time and didn't feel like much of a winner.

2. Put my current plot aside for now and write something strictly for the lolz so I can enjoy myself and I won't feel like I have to write well. Seems like a good idea, but I'm not particularly good at writing humor.

3. Keep working on my current plot at my own pace. Again, seems like a good idea, except that my normal pace is incredibly slow, so I might never get it finished.

4. Quit NaNo. I really don't want to do this. I hate giving up, and I get more writing done during NaNo than any other month of the year.

Yeah, I know I'm probably being way too pessimistic about this, but I'd appreciate some advice. Thanks in advance.

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[nlthomas.livejournal.com]

I find myself running into this almost every night. The writing is solid, but I begin to doubt my ability of finishing it. If this is the story you really, really want to write, push yourself to keep working on it. Don't stress if you cannot make the daily word counts.

What would feel worse? Continuing with it as is, or looking back the 1st of December, wondering what would have happened if you kept working on it? For me, the pain of pushing forward now is a lot better than the guilt I'd feel for axing it too soon to know if it's any good.