02 May 2012 17 Comments
Help! How Do You Restart Your Story After a Critique?
This may sound crazy but have you ever gotten to a point where you know you need to re-start your story and you don’t know where or how to re-start it?
Let me explain (no, let me sum up): A Fast Draft of 50,000 words, a critique in which the first chapter needs revamped, and the revamping will effect the rest of the 50,000 words to a big extent. Frustrating, yes–but needing to be done. Or maybe I’m looking at it all wrong.
I’m sure I’m not the only one out there who has come across this situation whether by critique partners/editors or even your own gut instinct. I’ve done this a time or two also but always ended up agonizing over it (like when I used to agonize over Algebra problems in high school–no, I’m not a Math person). I would over think the problem until my brain wanted to explode. …
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