Giving up on a Writing Project

We asked your on Twitter!

Question… Have you ever given up on a writing project? What made you decide to do so? (we will compile answers for our site ;-))

— Women Writers (@WomenWriters) January 2, 2014

@WomenWriters Sure have..Well, for a while anyways. I felt awful about it for roughly a year, then went back at it. Now I love the thing! 🙂

— Eli Hinze (@Eli_Hinze) January 2, 2014

@WomenWriters Define "given up"? Sometimes I think I've given up and the project resurfaces at a later time and reinvents itself.

— Cynthia McGean (@CynthiaMcGean) January 2, 2014

@WomenWriters Yep, I recently binned 60k of Epic Fantasy. It was boring me to write it, it would bore anyone to read it. Not good 🙁

— Zoe Markham (@ZoeMarkham) January 2, 2014

@WomenWriters Yes, but mostly when I was a kid or a bit older, I hadn't any ideas left for the stories so I didn't touch them anymore 😉

— Bianca Thomahsen (@BiancaThomahsen) January 2, 2014

@WomenWriters Yes & because I thought it was terrible. Lol I'm sure it wasn't that bad but it's hard to convince yourself otherwise

— Allyson Johnson (@AllysonAJ) January 2, 2014

@WomenWriters Absolutely. Perseverance is one thing, but some ideas just don't work out. You need the freedom to be flexible.

— Ginny DiGuiseppi (@ginnywrites) January 2, 2014

@WomenWriters I can't. I've created a whole community of people. If I give up on them I'd feel like a murderer 🙂

— Julia Yeates (@YeatesJM) January 2, 2014

@WomenWriters Don't think completely given up, generally either go back later or use parts in others if I can't write the 1st story anymore.

— Amy Benton (@amydotnet) January 2, 2014

@WomenWriters If I've gone through a number of drafts & the story doesn't seem to be getting better, I'll shelve it for a while.

— Denise D. Young (@denisedyoung) January 2, 2014

@WomenWriters I view projects as paying my bills, so it may take months but each one gets completed.

— Sue Brown (@suebrownstories) January 2, 2014

@WomenWriters I recently set aside a project because I currently lack the skills But I know what's missing and created a learning goal.

— Rebecca Thomas (@kirylin) January 2, 2014

@WomenWriters I have a novel I love but can't edit again (been through 5 drafts!) under my bed. I've given up but IT keeps whispering to me.

— judi thomas art (@judithomasart) January 2, 2014

@judithomasart @WomenWriters 5 drafts? Why, you've only just begun, woman!

— Rayanne Sinclair (@RayanneSinclair) January 2, 2014

@RayanneSinclair @WomenWriters aaaarrrrrggghhhh

— judi thomas art (@judithomasart) January 2, 2014

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Category: Contemporary Women Writers