I have about 60k words in a novel. It's mostly all there, from beginning to end, but there are major holes to plug, continuity problems, half-written scenes, turgid scenes, all of it. In short, a first draft.
I've cleared other writing projects out of the way and am determined to get this thing to a more completed state, but I'm having the devil's own time of it. I dither over where to begin (current opening is slow, imo). I struggle with how to end this scene, how to start that one. I have a romantic sub-plot that's very nearly unwritten. And so on.
Every time I sit down to try to work, all these clamor at me and I feel overwhelmed. I've got a house with no roof but all I can manage is to tinker with the kitchen shelves. I print and make edits, then throw it out. The wheels spin, the car goes nowhere.
There's tons of advice on how to write. There's precious little on how to rewrite. *grumble*
Does this happen with anyone else and, if so, how do you deal with it?
I've cleared other writing projects out of the way and am determined to get this thing to a more completed state, but I'm having the devil's own time of it. I dither over where to begin (current opening is slow, imo). I struggle with how to end this scene, how to start that one. I have a romantic sub-plot that's very nearly unwritten. And so on.
Every time I sit down to try to work, all these clamor at me and I feel overwhelmed. I've got a house with no roof but all I can manage is to tinker with the kitchen shelves. I print and make edits, then throw it out. The wheels spin, the car goes nowhere.
There's tons of advice on how to write. There's precious little on how to rewrite. *grumble*
Does this happen with anyone else and, if so, how do you deal with it?