Am I the only one...

[wayfaringwordhack]

...who 2/3-3/4 of the way into a wip feels the need to stop and reread the whole project again, even if I've been working steadily on it and it should all, theoretically, still be fairly fresh in my mind (specifically because the dratted thing is under 60K)?

I have this overwhelming, paralyzing sense of *needing* to reread it because I feel l'm waffling all over the place. However, if I do reread, I may not be content to make notes of the genre, "flesh this out; remember to add detail F; make X clearer, so Y is foreshadowed," etc. I may get sucked into to polishing and I just don't want that right now. This is not the draft for that. This is the draft for forward motion, and the reread impulse seems contrary to that. I. just. want. to. finish. and. set. it. aside. YESTERDAY!

I don't believe the story is too *big*--it is rather straightforward, linear, and contained--so from whence does this I-have-to-reread-NOW! feeling come?  

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[footlingagain.livejournal.com]

I'm desperately fighting the urge to re-read, because I know I'll hate what I've just done. I always do!

So I'm checking back on my chapter list (for once I've actually made one) and telling myself it doesn't matter if I've gone off track, that can be interesting. As long as I bring myself back to where I should be at some point.

But oh, the printer is begging me to do just one teeny little chapter. Or maybe two *g*

[footlingagain.livejournal.com]

I followed the link from your 'Sound off!' btw. Hello :)

[mnfaure.livejournal.com]

Hello! :D

[mnfaure.livejournal.com]

*lol*

And then three, four, five, sixseveneight, oh heck, just do all of it. :P