Board Thread:Writer's Workshop/@comment-26537256-20160716142055/@comment-4715955-20160718081319

Assuming he's sincere and not just throwing up his hands again.

I'd can this version and just take another stab at it later on: write a new version from scratch with the same concept, use a straightforward narrative style, and flesh it out further. Write a few other projects to practice establishing setting and describing people, places, and concepts more clearly. No need to completely abandon the whole project; just ditch the current draft and go back to the drawing board. I rewrote a story for about ten years before I got it right, and it's in a published anthology now. It was a pain in the ass, but eventually I got it.

More importantly, work on the attitude toward criticism.