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Dusting off

August 25, 2008 | Leave a Comment

Was cleaning up my hard drive a bit the other day, which mostly just means getting rid of stuff I’m not using. Dropbox was helpful as I put my writing on there (with a backup of course) so I can get to it from anywhere. And as is usually the case I started poking around the scraps of old material.

I recently let a friend of mine read the first three chapters of a story I started, well originally probably around 2003 or 2004. It was my story for the novel writing class I took, so I have a pretty solid first three chapters. But, that’s the problem. I only have a first three chapters. I’ve never been able to get the characters to go ahead and get started on chapter four.

I suppose this is better then the story scraps I have where it’s only a few sentences or a paragraph, but still, this story has potential, if I just were to sit down and work at it. After all, I’ve already proven to myself that I can dust off an older story, push it through and finish it.

I think part of my hesitation with this one is that I’ve been doing the ‘two people on a road trip’ thing a few times now. I definitely think I’ll be doing something different for Nano this year.


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