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megwrites ([personal profile] megwrites) wrote2009-05-19 07:54 am

This is why people have rage attacks

Seriously, brain?

I'm 16,011 words into a draft and now you tell me that the story needs to make a complete u-turn and go the other way? And by "go the other way", I mean start all the hell over again from word one.

I think I'm going to go outside and jog around in circles of rage until I figure out what to do. Because, hey it burns calories and it might just help me not smash my own computer.

[identity profile] takumashii.livejournal.com 2009-05-19 02:32 pm (UTC)(link)
With my current novel, I ended up doing that not once but twice. I've written 90,000 words so far... and my draft is only at 30K. It's painful, but ultimately I feel like it was the right thing for the book.