Friday, October 16, 2009

just waiting...

I have just given out 4 copies of my first 16 chapters to friends and co-workers to read. I hope to get back info that helps me notice the mistakes I have made so I don’t make them in the second half of the book that i committed in the first half...

Why is it so hard to judge your own work? i can't figure it out, no matter how many times i try and do it i fail to read what is on the paper instead i progress in my head and skip mistakes that i should catch...i guess that is my answer. Please feel free to add to it.

Have you ever found that the book you're working on is a lost cause? How have you come by this conclusion? And did you just move on and start a new story?

thx for your time...

2 comments:

  1. I've never "discarded" a story or a novel, but I have let it languish until the time was right or I found the angle I needed to make it sing.

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