I agree it's frustrating when you have spent a lot of time on a story, only to find its just not going anywhere.
I have put stories aside for months, tinkering with them on and off, and usually manage to finish them in the end.
Often, if I've hit a dead end, it helps to reverse a little and try a different route.
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My idea graveyard is in my head. So yes, I've abandoned story ideas before.
I tend to write things out in my head constantly before I commit to putting pen to paper or fingers to keys. That's how my creative brain is wired.
However, at the same time, story ideas are often resurrected. I take bits and pieces from other stories, both complete and incomplete, for something totally new. So it is like a Frankenstein bit, only far more elegant.
The one story I've submitted so far takes pieces here and there from all over in fact.
Pretty much all I do is abandon stories and ideas.
In my head and even after I have it half written. I don't have much faith in my writing and I get frustrated easy so then I just say fuck it and quit.
When I first joined I was writing all kinds of stuff just a because it was exciting and new, but when I go back and read it I'm like wow this is shitty.
So yeah, there's a lot of dead ideas in my mind and half written ones.
I try not to abandon my stories, but I seem to be the worst at keeping focus and sitting down to write. I keep a very long ongoing list of ideas or things I'd like to add to stories I'm working on, but then when I sit down to write it always seems like I get distracted by something else going on in my life. And then there are many times where I simply get bored with what I'm writing. I just have to take a break from it, maybe start something new, and then come back to it later. I typically always finish what I'm writing, but it can take me forever to do it.
At any given time, I will have 5 or 6 stories partially written, ranging from a few sentences to multiple chapters. One of these is always the story that I am concentrating on finishing. If I get completely stuck, I go tinker with one of the others, or better yet, read. Reading well-written sizzling stories usually get my juices flowing and motivates me to hit the keyboard again.
