Knowing When to Finish

How do we know when it's time to ditch a story and when it's time to rewrite it?

That is the question.

A very important one, I might add. Since it involves months and months of a precious little commodity called time.

After my year-long adventure in tearing apart and restructuring my current WIP, I am convinced that rewriting a novel takes much longer than writing one.

It's like putting together a very intricate puzzle while pulling from a pile of two puzzle piece sets. And to make it extra...