I've recently written two drafts of a play called Traveling to Montpelier, which is a follow up to 2008's When Is A Clock. Sort of the same 'universe' and rules, characters in relationship to the original story.
After two drafts, I actually have decided that the third draft will be starting entirely from scratch, keeping nothing from the original version.
It's the first time I've ever done this. I usually figure there's something salvageable from the initial drafts and impulses. I don't, in fact, think that what I've already written doesn't work. I just gave the whole thing a fair amount of thought and realized it's not really a play I'd be jazzed to sit through. It's got characters and ideas and even some okay writing. I just don't, you know, enjoy it myself. Hard to fix that problem with tweaks.
Anyone out there hit that particular wall before?
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