When not to give up
May. 19th, 2022 04:43 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
hilsLast month I signed up for a DMBJ Small-Medium Ship exchange. Without going into any details (because it's a secret) I was assigned pretty much the perfect recipient whose interests align with mine perfectly. I started writing pretty much immediately.
I was a good chunk of the way through when I realised something wasn't quite right with the fic. I was happy with the overall concept but it just wasn't clicking with me. I could have started over and tried to figure it out but I pushed through until I had a completed first draft.
Now I'm going through and 'editing' it, but which I mean I have more or less completely re-written the start of it and it's SO MUCH BETTER NOW. I think pushing through to the end of the first draft was a good idea because now I know where the characters need to be at the end.
Normally I'd feel sad about scrapping so many words that I spent time on, but it's definitely the right thing to do. I feel so much better about this fic now.
Anyone else scrapped big chunks of writing and felt good about it?
I was a good chunk of the way through when I realised something wasn't quite right with the fic. I was happy with the overall concept but it just wasn't clicking with me. I could have started over and tried to figure it out but I pushed through until I had a completed first draft.
Now I'm going through and 'editing' it, but which I mean I have more or less completely re-written the start of it and it's SO MUCH BETTER NOW. I think pushing through to the end of the first draft was a good idea because now I know where the characters need to be at the end.
Normally I'd feel sad about scrapping so many words that I spent time on, but it's definitely the right thing to do. I feel so much better about this fic now.
Anyone else scrapped big chunks of writing and felt good about it?