Since finishing my second draft last week, I haven’t made any further progress; travel, the flu, and generally being sick of the story have combined to put me off doing any more.
At this point, I suspect the best thing I can do is to start working on something else. I’m going to need more roleplaying material soon, and several other ideas have been growing in the background, so I won’t be short of things to work on.
However, this does mean my goal of posting a story this round is probably a failure. It’s not been a total loss, by any means — I’ve learned a lot about editing, and I’ll very likely get back to this story at some point — but it’s still frustrating to keep missing these goals.
On the other hand, if I wasn’t failing, I wouldn’t be pushing myself hard enough.
New goal for this coming week: write five days out of seven, and find a new project to focus on.
Good luck and happy writing!
Jenkins Rising 
3 responses to “ROW80 Week 10.5: Collapse”
I can’t believe we’re nearing the end of Round Two already!
I’m looking forward to a serious reboot for Round Three.
Sometimes you have to step back from a story. At least for me, a story can start to feel like a burden if I push myself too hard for it.
I always need a few weeks (ideally, six weeks) between drafts of a story so I can really see it with fresh eyes. That’s just my process. Good luck finding new material to work on. I find that, if there’s one thing I’m never short on, it’s story ideas! :)