Igenlode Wordsmith

It's a shame you're not feeling very happy with your story... I hate it when there's long-term frustration and insecurity, or feelings of stagnancy even though I really want to write something, and finish it. "Well then do you really even /want/ to?" Is what I'll ask myself. The truth is: yes, yes I do, BUT I've taken the story somewhere I don't know how to navigate, and many possibilities have become off-limits because of decisions made that dictated the future more than I had foreseen. Maybe it would help you if you dialed back to wherever you were in the narrative that last made you feel like you knew what you were doing and liked where the story was going. Sometimes throwing it back on the operating table and disassembling the most recent work helps get your brain out of that quagmire. Occasionally, I have to just scrap what I made happen and imagine alternatives, and sometimes while imagining an alternative I'm lucky enough to have ideas following it that spring up in my head and immediately clear the fog. Anyway, I wish you good luck figuring it out.