Topic: Back to the drawing board

I've decided to get back to the drawing board to refocus my story to what is essential and what I really want to say.
Thank you all for your reviews. I'll reread them all. Thanks to the feedback I've gained new insights into how I want to proeceed. It just doesn't seem to make sense to go on publishing at this point. Now that doesn't mean I'll leave the site, but I feel like I have to retreat a bit into myself and rethink and reconsider.
Again, thank you. Sooner or later I'll be back.
Christine

Quote Post 1

Re: Back to the drawing board

"Eyes of the River" is a very entertaining tale, Christine. I'm happy to see you aren't giving up on it.

Bill

Quote Post 2

Re: Back to the drawing board

Aw, I definitely understand that line of thinking.  I've gone back to the drawing board with so many of mine.  Sometimes just walking away from it for a long period of time and working on something else helps.  I've gone back to things I started 10 or 12 years before.  I'd read what I wrote and cringe!  Then I'd have a whole new perspective on it.  Not suggesting you wait 10 or 12 years, but sometimes putting it down for a while helps.  Write something else, then come back to it.  Get your psychic distance.  It doesn't have to be something as daunting as a novel.  Maybe a few short stories.  Just a suggestion.

I sincerely hope you don't leave the site.  I love your story.  Sorry I'm behind on reading it, but I am also behind on several others on here that I want to get to.  Life gets in my way!

Hugs to you,
MJ

Quote Post 3

Re: Back to the drawing board

Good luck, Christine and hurry back!

Quote Post 4

Re: Back to the drawing board

Thanks, Bill, Marilyn, and Randall for your support. I need to step back a bit but am actually looking forward to reimagining my story. And today, not having to work and having slept well, I feel quite inspired. Sooner or later I'll come back with another version and hopefully one that I can embrace more.

Quote Post 5

Re: Back to the drawing board

You've come so far... why not just finish it before you re-tool it?

The race is almost won. Matters not that it's not the race you set out to run or that you no longer care for that particular prize. Those two satisfying words "The End" are yours for the taking.

Quote Post 6

Re: Back to the drawing board

Thanks, Kdot. I hear what you're saying, and I had the intention to post the entire book before I start revising. The longer I went on, though, the more I felt I need to revise now, and perhaps a drastic revision. I don't know where it will lead me. For the time being, I have to rethink what I really want to say and do with my story. The entire book has been written in a first draft, so I got some satisfaction of having come to the end. Yet, this satisfaction fades when new ideas pop up. At this time, I need to hang back, rethink, re-feel, restructure. Who knows I might be back soon, maybe later, but it's not a final goodbye.

Quote Post 7