: Re: How to motivate yourself to finish something? Far too many stories of mine have gone unfinished simply because I lost motivation to keep writing (and it doesn't help that I manage to convince

For a while, try writing shorter stories that you can finish before your motivation wanes.

Also, try to distinguish between:

losing motivation
fear of finishing

Writers often fear finishing a story because finishing means:

now they gotta think up a new story idea
now they gotta show people their story,
and that scares the pajamas off of them

It turns out that neither of those things is true. You don't have to think up a new idea. You don't have to show your story to anybody. You might choose to. Or you might choose not to. Whatever you choose is okay. And you can make the choice later.

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