I've been revising my manuscript and I've noticed that I need to re-write a couple of things, but I just get so frustrated that I can't finish it. I've taken breaks away from writing it, but this doesn't seem to help. What can I do to finish my manuscript without getting irritated?
2007-03-05 08:10:02 · 8 answers · asked by Oompa Loompa 2 in Arts & Humanities ➔ Books & Authors
You definitely need a break from it. Set it aside and start writing something completely different until you regain some perspective. Even Stephen King sets his books-in-progress aside for up to six months before coming back to them to work on revisions. You're going to burn out on it if you don't step back.
Writing can be a frustrating experience, especially during revisions. Stepping back from the work and redirecting your creative energies will help keep you fresh and keep from going crazy. Best wishes!
2007-03-06 02:44:14 · answer #1 · answered by §Sally§ 5 · 1⤊ 1⤋
Ha! not get frustrated? If you're to that point the frustration will grow if anything. However, what I normally do is go write at a place new and interesting. That way, if I start to get a little irritated, I can focus on the new environment. For myself, the best place to write is on the train going back and forth between Dallas and Fort Worth until the train stops for the night. For you maybe it's a park, on the roof of your house, by a stream, in a closet, the possibilities are endless. If you find the frustration doesn't go away, put the novel down for a while and work on another project. When the time comes to pick it back up again, you'll know.
2007-03-05 08:47:05 · answer #2 · answered by uncletoon2005 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
First, you need to objectively look at the manuscript and determine if it SHOULD be completed! There is nothing wrong with deciding a story just doesn't work, and moving on to work on something else. Sometimes we get fixating on a particular project, and see it as a personal failure if we don't finish it. But good writers know sometimes you need to be willing to walk away.
I have a fantasy novel that I started. While the first chapter came out quickly, and I've got a firm idea of where the story is going, I can't segue into the second chapter in a way I am happy. So I have moved on to other projects. When the story is ready to be written, I'll go back to it. But fixating on a specific project will just stifle you, and you won't be happy with the end result.
2007-03-05 08:51:03 · answer #3 · answered by bardsandsages 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Perhaps you didn't formulate your story appropriately. I of course don't know, but just throwing it out here. A lot of people write and write without knowing where they're going and then when they get to the end it doesn't really make much sense and they get frustrated as they try to put lipstick on a pig.
You might want to review your controlling idea and story arc as well as the scenes, sequences, and acts and see if they all work well. If they don't, then you might want to rewrite while knowing that. That what drafts are for.
2007-03-05 13:31:26 · answer #4 · answered by i8pikachu 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋
start up yet another undertaking. to not burst your bubble, yet except you're conversing some e book that has already been commonly used and additionally you're in simple terms waiting for comments from editors, it ought to take YEARS till now you get any bites on your manuscript. certainly one of my writers communities had an area author communicate at certainly one of our conferences and her first revealed e book have been complete for ten years till now it replaced into revealed. So, she rather lots had to maintain writing to maintain from going insane. the sturdy element replaced into by potential of the time her first novel replaced into revealed she had 2 different complete ones. wager what, those have been revealed additionally. So, according to danger take a short ruin then start up a sparkling undertaking. yet regardless of whilst you're in simple terms waiting for editor comments, start up a sparkling undertaking. then you certainly are beforehand of the activity and not basically letting your creativity and writing qualifications flounder on an analogous time as you wait in this one. As for wide-unfold frustration on an analogous time as writing my answer is rather much continuously 5 to twenty minutes of Wii Boxing, reckoning on how annoyed i'm. If I in simple terms choose a short ruin I play for 5 minutes, if i'm somewhat having situation with something I play for longer and enable my suggestions wander. This frequently helps get my suggestions back on the right music.
2016-10-17 08:24:20 · answer #5 · answered by ? 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
I agree with Billy Bob, just write the book and when you discover you need to re-write something...makes notes of reference to make the changes but don't focus on that. Finish the book then go back and change as needed. Good Luck!
2007-03-05 08:19:50 · answer #6 · answered by Elvis lives! 2 · 0⤊ 1⤋
1)stop reviewing it
2)finish it
3) take a break for a week or so
4) have someone read it
5)take s uggestions
6)revise it
2007-03-05 09:05:56 · answer #7 · answered by SamC-akaCaysynn 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
just finish your book and when you edit it rewrite all you need to
2007-03-05 08:14:29 · answer #8 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 1⤋