Noticing Newbies

I was just looking through this thread again and I realized something.

amandabell888 you said that you have a binder of "abandoned" stories??

Well...before you start working on them again, consider that those stories that you "abandoned" were stories that no longer wanted to be written.

What I mean is, sometimes, stories are like living, breathing creatures. They either want to be written, or they don't. They have moods.

I know this sounds rather goofy...and maybe it is. But I think that when a story gets "abandoned" it's not the writer's fault 90% of the time. The story is trying to tell you that it either wasn't fully formed and ready to be written...or it wasn't all that great an idea in the first place.

There may be outside reasons for you to have stopped working on a particular story. But, I think, if that story wanted to be written out badly enough...it wouldn't have allowed you to stop. It would have kept driving you batty until you wrote more.

Just my take on things.