Don't You Hate When That Happens?

I have been working on finishing my NaNo novel as well as getting started on a couple of other idea that I had floating in my head when something dawned to me; I think I need to start the darn thing over again. That's right. I am over 100K words into this novel and almost at the end and I think the whole basis of the story needs to be reworked.

I don't really know what it is but it feels like something I have read before and the characters, with the exception of the main two, don't feel like mine anymore. How does that happen?

I think the problem was that I had this idea in my head for awhile and when it first came to me it was based off a fanfiction that I had planned to write. I thought I had flushed out the new characters that I had created enough that it wouldn't still feel the same but it still does or at least it feels more like a remake of someone else's fiction than my own.

Don't get me wrong, I love my characters and I still want to write Shane and CeCe's story because I really think that would be something really different and maybe that was the story that I should have written last November instead of thinking that I should wait until the upcoming November to write it. I am just not sure and I think that if you aren't sure it shows in your writing.

I came up with a little bit of a different take on how to start the novel over as well as how to make the story different. Now the problem is the logistics of what I am thinking. I am not really sure that it can exist in reality. That is such a funny thing to say considering that my story isn't really reality based but I want to stay as close to real as possible. After all it does have to be believable if not achievable.

Now it is just a matter of finding the time to write it or re-write it whichever ends up working and then I can get it submitted by June so that I can have at least one copy sitting on my bookshelf.