(gotta love Air Supply!)

I think I'm falling out of love...with my WIP, that is.

It's been nearly four years since I started work on my supposedlybreakoutnovel House of Cards and I'm still sixty thousand words short of completing it...yeah...you read that right...sixty thousand words!  My word count goal is at least 90K, I'm at 34K...okay so it's not exactly 60K to the word but it's close. Anyway...I know I could probably come up with hundreds of reasons for why I haven't completed the novel but  for now, I'm gonna go with....I don't love my book anymore.

I've said it before...and probably so much my subconscious believes it...I don't think I'm a good enough writer to do justice to this story. The strange thing is, though, that when I verbally tell someone about the book (plot/characters/etc) they get very enthused and tell me I need to finish it. Granted, I get enthused as well because it's a great story...in my head.  

I've tried to get back into the book by re-reading from start to stop, making a chapter by chapter outline, penning future scenes and rewriting previous ones...but I just can't seem to move into the second act of the story.  Granted, my lack of motivation has alot to do with my current book sales (or lack of...seriously..LACK of) and my current unagentedness as well as still waiting on editors who've had my other books for nearly four months....okay....pass the pity party punch.

So anyway. I decided to do NaNo this year to help me fall back in love with the book...although I'm no officially signed up at the NaNo site...I'm actually participating at Backspace and Red Room because I "know" people through those two sites and it'll be easier to stay on task if someone I know is pushing me along...or encouraging me. Although, the encouraging hasn't seemed to help lately.  I think I need happy pills or something.

So...wish me luck.  And, tell me, what do you do to fall back in love with a project?