One of my coaching clients, a very skilled writer, wrote me a few weeks ago about the temper tantrum she was having with her book. It's in revision stage, a novel, and a good one--I've read parts of it and I was hooked on the characters, plot, and premise. But she's been working on it for five years and she's tired. "I'm going to toss it," she said, and I half-believed her, so I sent her a plea to wait. Set the thing aside for a day, two, a week if she could. Do something else. Something completely unconnected to her book. Then decide if it was ready to be scrapped.
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