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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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[kisforkurama.livejournal.com]

I tend to take a dare off of the dare thread and apply it to whatever I'm writing immediately if I start feeling like whatever I'm writing sucks. Because sure, it might suck but it'll get you thinking and it'll you can always edit it out when you do edit.

And then, sometimes, I switch pov to test out if I can write better in a different one or tell myself I can't use the word "awesome" or something to make it fun and exciting again.