It depends on whether the story is giving you a bad feeling or whether it was just the wrong time.
To work your way through a story with such intensity requires a lot of passion for it, it doesn't matter if you end up hating the story in the end (even though clearly that's not the ideal) but as long as you still feel the energy for writing it when you sit down at the keyboard.
If after the seven days you couldn't face writing another word of it then I'd say scrap the idea, put it on a shelf to finish later, if you were really enthused about it and it was simply life that made you unable to finish writing what you wanted to then keep the story for November. But you have to be completely honest with yourself as to which one of these scenarios is the case, sometimes with a story that you love the idea of it can be very easy to ignore your gut instinct and just say "Well of course I want to write it, why wouldn't I?" but a good plot does not always good motivation make, especially if you're not getting into the characters.
And as always good luck! There are always slumps in the month, no matter how much you like writing your story.
I fell in love with the idea of my novel. It just seemed so interesting, still does. But honestly I stopped writing more because of both of those reasons. I was working a little bit more because it was a busy month. But I also was getting tired of trying to make my characters talk. Trying to make them interact and get somewhere in the plot. It was so frustrating! I hope that I can someday finish this novel, but I also have about three other novels I've started and have not finished that I want to one day finish. It's all just a bunch of "somedays" and "eventuallys" for me. I never finish anything. I just love starting them! hahaha!!
Thanks for what you said, though. It helped me establish how I feel about this one novel in particular :)
If you still love the idea, try coming back to it at a later date and perhaps draw out one of the other characters to look at their story. I did that last nano, I had thought that one of my characters would be an evil means to an end, but eventually I discovered that he was really integral and I actually preferred writing him and his motivations to that of some of the characters I originally thought would be critical to the continuation of the story. It may just be a case that it is not that story's time. (Look at me trying to sound all philosophical)
To work your way through a story with such intensity requires a lot of passion for it, it doesn't matter if you end up hating the story in the end (even though clearly that's not the ideal) but as long as you still feel the energy for writing it when you sit down at the keyboard.
If after the seven days you couldn't face writing another word of it then I'd say scrap the idea, put it on a shelf to finish later, if you were really enthused about it and it was simply life that made you unable to finish writing what you wanted to then keep the story for November. But you have to be completely honest with yourself as to which one of these scenarios is the case, sometimes with a story that you love the idea of it can be very easy to ignore your gut instinct and just say "Well of course I want to write it, why wouldn't I?" but a good plot does not always good motivation make, especially if you're not getting into the characters.
And as always good luck! There are always slumps in the month, no matter how much you like writing your story.
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I hope that I can someday finish this novel, but I also have about three other novels I've started and have not finished that I want to one day finish. It's all just a bunch of "somedays" and "eventuallys" for me. I never finish anything. I just love starting them! hahaha!!
Thanks for what you said, though. It helped me establish how I feel about this one novel in particular :)
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Anyway, glad I could help.
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