Story Collapse

Damien WalterAugust 29, 2008August 30, 2008Writing Journalgrrrrrrr

Bugger. The story I’ve been working on for the last three weeks reached crisis point today. Crisis point means (a) I hate it and (b) I think I have good reason to hate it. It’s almost inevitable that any story over a few thousand words will have these crises along the way. Hopefully when I look at it again the problems will be not as bad as I think, or I will see a way to solve them. Grrrrrr……

UPDATE 30/08/08: I’ve found a different hook into the story and feeling much happier about it today. Hooray!

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Writer and storyteller. Contributor to The Guardian, Independent, BBC, Wired, Buzzfeed and Aeon magazine. Special forces librarian (retired). Director of creative writing at UoL, published with OUP and Cambridge. Currently travelling the world and writing a book. View more posts