Exorcising your WIP

I must admit that's new to me, and I'm always seeing "signs" around me. o_o How strange!

I would think that the mere act of putting effort into a story would be enough to appease the "writing spirits," however one defines that; yet you're already doing that. Maybe you're just not doing it right...? Is there something in the story that you're fighting against, something you want to write one way but all signs seem to point toward it going another way? Or some other sort of place where you might get a vague feeling of it not being "quite right"? You say it's ready to query; is it really? Bad things might be happening when you work on the story because you're not doing it the way it needs to be done, only you just aren't aware of it yet. Any way to take a deeper look and see where something might have derailed or gone wrong...?

Apologies if I'm putting way too much thought into this, I'm pretty strange myself.

The spirits are hungry. Leave your MS open on your computer, place food all around the monitor and close the door. Come back after and hour. All spirits would have been appeased by your offering.

I do it all the time.



















(You didn't take that seriously did you?)

Hm, I'm not sure. I haven't encountered this before, then again I AM only just finishing my first novel. I hope not to find myself in this predicament, though I am struggling now the closer I'm getting to the final chapter revision being easily easily easily distracted.

Maybe have a talk with it? Maybe it fears you're abandoning it? Maybe it's not sure what exactly you are planning to do with it now that it's finished, even if you know bit by bit. Or maybe it's a warning. Maybe something in there that needs changed.

Then again, it could just be pure coincidence. Things do tend to happen all at once. When it rains, it pours. And maybe the weather in your life just went sour right at the time you hit a high peak (finishing your book). I'd hope to bet on the latter.

I dunno about anyone else, but you lot are scaring me.

Perhaps you are neglecting other areas of your life by writing and things are going wrong as a consequence? I personally don't believe in "possession" there's usually a far less interesting explanation, IMO.

Sending it out might be the best cure. That way it's out of your hands, and hopefully no longer messing up your life.

Don't listen to any of them. This won't stop until you swing a dead cat over your head three times in the graveyard where Mark Twain is buried.

...anyone who gets the reference gets a cookie.

Carmy said:

I dunno about anyone else, but you lot are scaring me.

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I agree... Lol,



Try getting a priest to throw holy water on your computer? (If that's where you write your ms) A bucket load should do it.












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Okay do this:

Before you start writing, feed a crabapple to a small goat, play hopscotch twice, and do three deep knee bends. After you finish, pet a hamster, eat a fig, buy a chocolate bar and drink a glass of red wine. There. You're golden now.