Comments on: Infectious Voices, Clunky Antiquity, Perversions of Tragedy and Other Sins http://writeabetternovel.net/infectious-voices-clunky-antiquity-perversions-of-tragedy-and-other-sins/ Practical wisdom for novelists and other storytellers Thu, 19 Apr 2012 03:32:54 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 By: Ryan Edel http://writeabetternovel.net/infectious-voices-clunky-antiquity-perversions-of-tragedy-and-other-sins/comment-page-1/#comment-93 Ryan Edel Fri, 30 Nov 2007 00:50:51 +0000 http://truevoice-blog.com/?p=86#comment-93 <p>I have a question that I hope won't get me in trouble during NaNoWriMo...now that I've finished draft one of my NaNo, I'm trying to crank out short stories. I have a folder on my hard drive for each year that I write, and a separate folder for all the stories that I finish. The "finished" folder is a lifetime folder - I have fewer "finished" stories (lifetime) than the typical year has false starts. Do you have any advice for how to tell when it's time to stop working on a story and move on to a different one? Or is it better to muscle through to at least "end" each story, even if you're already bored and there's no end in sight?</p> <p>(As an aside, most of my "stillbirth" stories feel dead because the story lacks conflict. The characters might be there, the interest might be there, and the setting usually has some great and wild idea, but I have no purpose to drive the characters forward, and I reach a point where I don't even know how to introduce one).</p> I have a question that I hope won’t get me in trouble during NaNoWriMo…now that I’ve finished draft one of my NaNo, I’m trying to crank out short stories. I have a folder on my hard drive for each year that I write, and a separate folder for all the stories that I finish. The “finished” folder is a lifetime folder – I have fewer “finished” stories (lifetime) than the typical year has false starts. Do you have any advice for how to tell when it’s time to stop working on a story and move on to a different one? Or is it better to muscle through to at least “end” each story, even if you’re already bored and there’s no end in sight?

(As an aside, most of my “stillbirth” stories feel dead because the story lacks conflict. The characters might be there, the interest might be there, and the setting usually has some great and wild idea, but I have no purpose to drive the characters forward, and I reach a point where I don’t even know how to introduce one).

]]> By: Ryan Edel http://writeabetternovel.net/infectious-voices-clunky-antiquity-perversions-of-tragedy-and-other-sins/comment-page-1/#comment-94 Ryan Edel Fri, 30 Nov 2007 00:50:28 +0000 http://truevoice-blog.com/?p=86#comment-94 <p>I have a question that I hope won't get me in trouble during NaNoWriMo...now that I've finished draft one of my NaNo, I'm trying to crank out short stories. I have a folder on my hard drive for each year that I write, and a separate folder for all the stories that I finish. The "finished" folder is a lifetime folder - I have fewer "finished" stories (lifetime) than the typical year has false starts. Do you have any advice for how to tell when it's time to stop working on a story and move on to a different one? Or is it better to muscle through to at least "end" each story, even if you're already bored and there's no end in sight?</p> <p>(As an aside, most of my "stillbirth" stories feel dead because the story lacks conflict. The characters might be there, the interest might be there, and the setting usually has some great and wild idea, but I have no purpose to drive the characters forward, and I reach a point where I don't even know how to introduce one).</p> I have a question that I hope won’t get me in trouble during NaNoWriMo…now that I’ve finished draft one of my NaNo, I’m trying to crank out short stories. I have a folder on my hard drive for each year that I write, and a separate folder for all the stories that I finish. The “finished” folder is a lifetime folder – I have fewer “finished” stories (lifetime) than the typical year has false starts. Do you have any advice for how to tell when it’s time to stop working on a story and move on to a different one? Or is it better to muscle through to at least “end” each story, even if you’re already bored and there’s no end in sight?

(As an aside, most of my “stillbirth” stories feel dead because the story lacks conflict. The characters might be there, the interest might be there, and the setting usually has some great and wild idea, but I have no purpose to drive the characters forward, and I reach a point where I don’t even know how to introduce one).

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