Out, Out, Damn Post

[caleb35]

I presume others also have this sensation from time to time but I thought I'd ask anyway -- anyone else ever reach a point with one of their works where they're just sick to death of looking at/working on it and just need to be done with it? Obligatory "asking for a friend"...

 

[anthrodisiac]

Kinda yes, kinda no. I get to a point where I go, "Okay, I'm done with this nonsense," and toss it out the door. Followed immediately by, "Wait, wait, come back! I just realized how to fix that sentence!"

 

[caleb35]

Kinda yes, kinda no. I get to a point where I go, "Okay, I'm done with this nonsense," and toss it out the door. Followed immediately by, "Wait, wait, come back! I just realized how to fix that sentence!"

Yeah, I know damn well I'm going to figure out the last little problems in it AFTER it's posted...

 

[IWroteThis]

While I will pressure myself a bit to work through scenes I'm struggling with, I don't allow myself to get frustrated to that point. Instead, I take a break from it and work on something else.

I can't remember the last time I didn't have something waiting in my editing queue, in part because the sheer number of bad grammar suggestions in my 46K story is intimidating. There is usually around three dozens stories waiting in my WiP folder and another couple of dozen in the sub-folder for stories I haven't added to in at least six months. If I can't find anything in there that strikes my fancy, I have hundreds of story ideas and small snippets to look through.

And that's just for Literotica… I have separate folders for stuff destined for elsewhere, although the numbers are a lot lower than in the Literotica folders.

If I can't find anything that moves me in all of that, I go read something somebody else wrote and let the writing portion of my brain reset.

 

[TheLobster]

Yes, I'm getting there with my Geek Pride story. It was originally supposed to go for On the Job, but that proved to be infeasible, and then I had some pesky real life stuff to attend to which kept me from writing for almost a week. I squeezed out the sex scene and now I "just" need 2 or 3 shorter scenes, but then I know I'll have to do some revision to better accommodate the last minute plot twist and it's just ugh...

So yeah, I just want to be done with this thing and move on to something else.

 

[EmilyMiller]

anyone else ever reach a point with one of their works where they're just sick to death of looking at/working on it and just need to be done with it?

Sort of. I was far from sick to death of my novel, but it consumed nearly a year of my life, and I got to the point when I needed it to be over.

That did lead to a few things I’m now less than happy with, but - after leaving it alone for a long time - I did a light rewrite, and the revised version is pending upload here.

 

[Statius]

Yes. I have a Prologue I know has a major problem in one section. Took 3 months to write 3.7 k words, I have no real desire to go back to it, but that lingering problem is nagging at me pretty bad, but I don't wanna! Im gonna have to. Avoidance only goes so far, eventually you have to do it, so best to find that moment when you have the answer and take immediate action whether you want to or not, but not before you have that answer; don't force it or you'll have to go back again.

 

[NotWise]

I got like that with some of my early stories. Different stories, different reasons. But you know, you do wha'cha gotta do.

It hasn't been so much of a problem with more recent stories, also for different reasons. For me, front-loading the work so the end is easier has helped.

 

[Duil2]

Yes absolutely do. If that happens I try to leave it alone for a few days and do something else, if possible, otherwise it's likely I'll abandon it or decide it needs a full rewrite.

 

[KittyOfSteele]

Kinda yes, kinda no. I get to a point where I go, "Okay, I'm done with this nonsense," and toss it out the door. Followed immediately by, "Wait, wait, come back! I just realized how to fix that sentence!"

Rare footage of me noticing the typos.