After all my writing struggles, I've realized the importance of letting go and starting over. It's kind of funny how I'm posting advice for other writers even though I'm barely a writer. I'm very inexperienced, so you'll have to strap in and bare with me for a little bit as I describe my conclusion.
Every writer eventually reached a point where their story angers them and they just feel lost. This can cause you to give up on the story. However, I believe the solution to this is to start over. I don't mean to discard everything you've written, but to discard all the emotions you have for your story. This may vary well mean forgetting everything you've written prior to this moment, but it doesn't have to.
Allow me to give you a personal example. I decided to write a series of short stories about one month ago, and since then I've made very little progress. The first story was pure drivel, which took a huge blow at my self-esteem and passion for the story. Since then, I've written down ideas but have never been able to write the actual story. I spent days, weeks dwelling on this and struggling to write.
Last night, though, I thought of a solution. Most of my negative feelings came from my first terrible story and my current lack of talent. People on this website told me to move on and write other stories for the series before I revisted the first story. Though I had a few story ideas in mind, I couldn't shake of the fact that I rushed through the initial story and barely even tried.
So, I decided to forget about my terrible first story and start over, only holding onto the knowledge of how not to write the story. Thjs is my only way to excape the loop I'm in. I'm doing my best to discard all negative feelings about my story and start from the beginning. This is only a notes draft, so I'm see this as exploring ideas for how the series should start.
Writing should be fun for the most part. I understand there are many moments when your story will enrage you so much you want to throw it out the window and that writing is a lot of hard work and not always fun. However, in order to write a worthy story, you must enjoy what you are doing. So, hopefully this epiphany of sorts helps other writers our as it helped me. I'll do my best not to fall into another loop of perfectionism and procrastination. Thanks for reading!
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