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Bella posted an update 7 years, 2 months ago
30k words in and I’ve stalled. It’s not that I don’t know what happens – far from it. I just cannot get myself to write it.
The problem is that I need a different narrator. Part of me wants to get on and finish the first draft, switching the narrator now, and then going back to edit the first 30k. Part of me doesn’t want to write another word until I’ve fixed the first 30k.
Aaaargh.
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I know the feeling – you have my sympathy. All the advice I can offer is to go for whichever option will help you keep moving forward. If the nagging in your head is so insistent you can’t go on, then go back and fix. If the thought of fixing the first 30k is too onerous and you want to head on to the conclusion, then do that. Although there’s nothing to stop you switching between both as the mood takes you…
Oh Bella. I do feel for you. FWIW that often happens to me. I get a good way into something and then have a blinding flash of inspiration as to a better way to write it. Good luck with whatever you decide to do.
Maybe fix the opening 3-4 chapters (10k or so), so you know you can do it, and then skip ahead and plough on the with the rest? Either way, hope you install soon x
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Oh, the dreaded 30K running-into-a-brick-wall-at-full-speed. Happens to me all the time – about 1/3 of the way through, or about 25 / 30K words in. FWIW, the last two times, I went back and edited from the start as I couldn’t face the idea of getting to the end of the draft and then having to go back and fix the start. It also meant that once I’d “fixed” the start, the rest of it flowed more smoothly. But, that was me, and not everyone works the same! Best of luck.