Writing When You Hate Writing

Some days, this is exactly how I feel.



Sometimes it's the novel's fault. As I plow through the draft, crap gets built on crap, building into a gargantuan pile of whatsit that I'm just going to have to fix later. Mistakes and weak plot points devolve into puzzles I no longer want to solve. And I've already used all my stock phrases and have to think of new ways to make people look, shout, cry, and laugh.



Sometimes it's the query process' fault. Being a tad insane, I've been charting my r...