Day Twenty-Nine

[altariel.livejournal.com]

Please post today's updates/excerpts/thoughts/etc. in comments.

Here's today's daily prompt for your updates, excerpts, any thoughts, etc.

Yesterday's post: Day Twenty-Eight

Comments

[espresso-addict.livejournal.com]

It's a common part of the writing process, I think. Happens to me all the time -- and often when I look at the stuff again, later, I realise that actually there was some merit in the original material, it just needed some minor tweaking.

I'd suggest starting a new page and writing a new scene to get your 400 words, without looking back at the old work. Then putting it away for at least a few days to get a bit more perspective on it.

[six-old-cars.livejournal.com]

Sound advice there!

One of the reasons I keep a stock-pile of scenes (apart from the ghastly tendency to have inspiration for bits that belong the other end of the book already!) is that what flows onto paper/screen/dictaphone seems brilliant as it flows, looks utterly dire the next time I read it, and quite often proves to have some merit in the long term.