π€¦ I often say this to other writers, and then I still go all shocked-Pikachu when I "rediscover" it myself:
You *have to* walk away from a manuscript when you think it stinks. Maybe it does! Or maybe it's bad brain worms.
Today I've been working through the first 30k of the novel, and although I've been tweaking as I go... the bones are good! I can work with bones this good. π
(π€ More after two classes.)
@MLClark: Affirmative. π―
@MLClark Happens with me all the time. I walk away from it, and the solution comes to me at 3 AM.
Writers, as a species, are haunted. If not cursed.