Write Away

Thanks for this! I think I do something similar, but I often have to step away from writing for a while and daydream a bit.

If any of it sounds like I'll be bored writing it then I scrap it and come up with something else. Yup, that's usually what I end up doing! However, I've had so many ideas over the years, whether they're specific images like "A giant eyeball that flies around the sky and brings good luck" or general themes like "A story about how humans interact with the universe", and they usually pop up again and again in different stories. Like "Okay, I didn't know what to do with this back then, but maybe I can make it work here." So even when I start from scratch, I'm drawing on things I've written in the past. My problem with this particular draft, I think, is that I hate it, and I have other, more interesting ideas that I'd rather be writing.

But this is helpful. I think I'll go through my draft with a purple pen and pick out what I want to keep, and then embellish on those aspects. Thanks!