toliver asked: What do you do (I asked this on my blog if...

toliver asked: What do you do (I asked this on my blog if you don't mind me repeating it here) when everything about your story falls apart? The characters, the plot, you are just so dissatisfied with all of it. Is that the middle doldrums? Or maybe you are still friends with your characters but it's just stuck, nothing seems to work. what do you do when you are stuck?

It can be the middle doldrums, but when that happens to me (and it does frequently) it's probably because I've tried to take the