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Originally Posted by Hitch
[...](FWIW: I struggled with this, in a particular story/plot for which I'd had high hopes. Basically, the plot line required a particular act, or you couldn't get there from here. Long story short--ha! See what I did there?--I abandoned the book. Despite whatever I may have owed to "the integrity of the story," I couldn't, when push came to shove, write it. I mean, I could have--but I'm not sure that it ever would have been solidly written, given all my misgivings about it, both my own and any prospective readers'. And that would have been the greatest sin of all--include it because I couldn't see how NOT to, but then do a botched job of writing it. Ick.)
Hitch
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Ah. I actually wrote my variation on this problem, I just haven't tried to publish it. It's probably the hardest I've ever worked on a short story (14k words). It's one of those stories that sort of insisted I finish it. It took months, but I couldn't concentrate on anything else until I got this one out of the way - and I did try. It's a psychological horror of sorts (or that's how I see it) and not at all what I normally write, although there is a theme to it not unlike some of other writing. Being horror it's possible I would get away with the animal cruelty ... or not. Not sure if I will ever publish it, but at least I got it out of my system; it was quite a relief when it was finally done.