cornerofmadness

My nano project (such as it was) was to finish various nano projects. I was wondering how do you recapture your mojo on a story that you've set aside. ushobwri also just had it as a theme which got my brain on it. For me, it's rereading it, making notes as I go. Sometimes I can figure out where I've gone wrong, like the one where it got too angry (hello Trump years). Others, I have no idea why I walked off, like my gaslight mystery. (Okay I suspect it was the fact it was unbalance, second chance romantic subplot vs murder plot which shouldn't be a hard fix but I had moved on).

I think this is where I miss having an in person writers group (or at least a beta reader team). I'm the type that works better with sounding boards. I'd love to hear how you do it (with the caveat of YMMV)

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Al nodded, bringing her walkie talkie to her lips, and whispered, “She’s up here.”

Javier pointed to the door and Dan tried the knob. It opened to a room in the ‘tower’ common to Victorian homes. All the walls were lined with mirrored tiles, the type that had been popular in the 70s as an accent wall. The woman sat in the center of the room, chanting surrounded by candles. Seeing them, she merely smiled.

“It’s a psychomanteum,” Al said. What could she be trying to talk to?

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