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I'm in this weird situation.
I have this novel that's been trunked. I love it to pieces and I know it's got tons of potential. And at the same time, I just don't want to go back with it. I'm kind of over it - I'm over thee characters and the storyline. Even though I always imagined that the story and characters have potential too, I just don't want to write them anymore. I haven't written them in almost 10 years and I just cringe when I go back to it.
I thought about re-writing it for a different age group, but I just don't want to revisit the story. At the same time I know it's a shame because there's a lot of potential.
I was thinking of creating a new story one day and I've been stuck on it for a long time because sometimes just doesn't seem to click. Then I took one crucial element from the trunked novel and added it to the world and it was like everything came together. The idea felt alive again. The issue is the more I go on the more I realize that there's more and more bits and pieces I'm breaking from that trunked novel.
It's working out because it's like the perfect marriage. But at the same time, what if I in the future would want to go back to that trunked novel to do something with it - try to re-write it into a different format like graphic novel or sceenplay or something? I wouldn't be able to because the ideas between my new story and the old one would be too similar. I'm also scared my agent will question why my new story I'm submitting to him seems so similar to that novel we shopped years ago and trunked?
Thoughts?
I have this novel that's been trunked. I love it to pieces and I know it's got tons of potential. And at the same time, I just don't want to go back with it. I'm kind of over it - I'm over thee characters and the storyline. Even though I always imagined that the story and characters have potential too, I just don't want to write them anymore. I haven't written them in almost 10 years and I just cringe when I go back to it.
I thought about re-writing it for a different age group, but I just don't want to revisit the story. At the same time I know it's a shame because there's a lot of potential.
I was thinking of creating a new story one day and I've been stuck on it for a long time because sometimes just doesn't seem to click. Then I took one crucial element from the trunked novel and added it to the world and it was like everything came together. The idea felt alive again. The issue is the more I go on the more I realize that there's more and more bits and pieces I'm breaking from that trunked novel.
It's working out because it's like the perfect marriage. But at the same time, what if I in the future would want to go back to that trunked novel to do something with it - try to re-write it into a different format like graphic novel or sceenplay or something? I wouldn't be able to because the ideas between my new story and the old one would be too similar. I'm also scared my agent will question why my new story I'm submitting to him seems so similar to that novel we shopped years ago and trunked?
Thoughts?