The Clairvoyant Zoopraxiscope

I'm reviewing again, it seems, and I'm finding myself returning to an earlier process, more methodically inclined, less impulsive. I don't know what this might mean for the review itself. Perhaps an improvement. There is a feeling, when writing anything, but especially when writing things "on spec," of hopelessness at a certain point, as if the thing is never going to complete itself, as if I might just have to throw up my hands in despair, desert the project, go have something to eat already--and I find that a methodical approach is a stopgap...