Tips for Deciding Whether to Ditch Your Current Writing Project

Your characters aren't talking to you. Your plot somehow wove itself into a massive, ugly knot and refuses to smooth out. Your once shiny idea for a book is now rather uninteresting and, perhaps, subpar.

You have another idea. A better idea (hopefully). So what should you do? Start working on this new project and leave the old one behind? Or try to take your WIP in to therapy and hopefully work out your problems?

It's a hard choice. I mean, this decision could go either way. On one side, a beau...