Knowing When to Walk Away, Run, or Stay with That Novel You’re Writing
It’s been so long
5 min readApr 28, 2024
When I down-sized five years ago, moving from 2600 square feet to 1100, and getting rid of about 70% of belongings, I had to go through shelves and filing cabinets of old manuscripts. There were at least two full novels, some beginnings of more, and boxes of notebooks of ideas.