Thread replies: 6
Thread images: 1
Thread images: 1
File: images.jpg (12KB, 182x278px) Image search:
[Google]
12KB, 182x278px
When should one abandon a project that's not really working out and try to start something new?
Or, to put it differently, how to not be the guy who gives up on everything.
>>
are you talking about something you're writing? i don't think work is ever lost. even if you toss it all away and stsrt from scratch, you learned a lot from it and know better what you want and what to avoid, etc. the first drafts might be shit, but they are never lost effort.
>>
>>9228781
Yes. I've been working on what I like to think might become a novel or novella for almost 18 months now, and I got about a hundred pages done. Now I know that quantity is not a good indicator of whether or not something is good.
Thing is, though, while I like large parts of the prose and narrative, I also lose faith in the plot.
>>
>>9228859
Alright, why didn't you give up yet? Why not put it aside and start something else, that might flow better?
Why do we cling to ideas whose realization does not come naturally to us?
>>
>>9228874
>Alright, why didn't you give up yet?
i did it keeps coming back
>Why not put it aside and start something else, that might flow better?
i did
>Why do we cling to ideas whose realization does not come naturally to us?
it comes naturally to me, albeit rather slowly
Thread posts: 6
Thread images: 1
Thread images: 1