I spent a little of yesterday and most of today looking at a story that I had begun to write a couple of months ago.  It’s not a completed story, but as I hit the 6,400 word mark I realised that this was not how I wanted the story to go (this seems to happen a lot).  So I decided to stop where I was, then I got side tracked and this happened and then that, we’ve all been there.  Simply though the last two days have been the first chance that I have had time to look at it.  I have been thinking about it though and having looked at it today I think I can make two stories from this one.  The story that is more complete in my head is the one that my original idea evolved into, so I think that I’ll write that one first.  The second story which is what I had hoped to write in the first place.  I know there is a risk that I wont be able to make the second story work, but I think that it’s at least worth a try.  I don’t have anything to lose by trying.

Has this happened to you?  Does one story fail but you can make at least one other story from it?