Check-in: 22 May 2011

[charamei]

Hello, everyone! How's your writing going today? Any deadlines coming up? Massaging the wordcount, or reining in the characters with minds of their own?


Discussion question: In those wonderful early drafts, what's the most important thing for you to get right, and what makes you give something up as a lost cause? (If you have never abandoned a piece of writing, I hate you so much congratulations!) For example, are you okay with flat characters as long as you have an outline, or would you rather have a character who can take you by the hand when you get lost? Or is there something else entirely?