I'm talking about unfinished manuscripts, and not the kind where you only write ten or twelve pages, then realize you're not really all that crazy about the idea. I'm talking about significant portions of novels that you've utterly abandoned to the dark and cold basement of your hard drive. Anybody got more than a couple of those?
Cuz yeah -- my Dreamkin story just wasn't doing it for me.
I can't really say what wasn't working, but for the last couple weeks, even when I've done significant writing on it, I haven't wanted to think about Dreamkin. Weird right? I don't know about you, but when I've got a good story going, my spare thoughts are always swirling in and out of it like, um, fog through swiss cheese. (Or something). Instead, my mind has been continuously fixated on this other story idea. The new story idea. The one with all the castle sculptures.
Like these:
Ultimately I couldn't force myself to work on a story that I just wasn't excited about and so I moved on. Despite having written 165 pages on Dreamkin. Maybe I'll come back to it someday, maybe I won't. Either way, the sad truth remains, the little guy's headed to a basement that suffers from over-crowding:
Gameworld Talonshale -- 173 pages
Pipe and Drum -- 115 pages
Hyperkind/Silverwing -- 80-ish pages
Solhades*
Thundergate Tower*
Bagabog*
Rustang*
(*average maybe thirty pages each)
My finished novels still outnumber my unfinished novels, so that makes me feel just a tiny bit better, but still. . . geez. . . am I a flake or what? Any of you folks got anything encouraging to say about that?
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Today's blog post bonus:
(purty, no?)