: Re: How to not change my mind (Sorry if this isn't the best title.) I've been writing for about 6 months now. And everything I write I feel as if it isn't good enough, or it was just a bad

@Caterina108

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It is absolutely normal and common to doubt yourself, besides, nobody is perfect and there is and always will be something in your work which is not as good as you would wish it to be. You are not alone, trust me.

The trick is not to let your doubts to stop you from finishing your story. No matter how well it is written, or how fresh your idea is, if the story is not finished, it is not a story.

You need to restrain your inner editor and keep going. Everything (and I do mean everything) can be fixed during the revision stage. All you need to do is get there.

There are no recipes for making you like what you see spilling from your mind to the page/screen, but if you are serious about writing, and if you do want to learn the craft, there is no other way than to keep working on it.

Finish your story. Six months from now you will be a better writer, and you will be able to revisit all you have written to date and easily fix whatever needs fixing, drop everything which your story does not need, add the bits which were missing before, polish and hone your word choices; you will become a better writer, but only if you keep writing.

Do not stop. Do not edit yourself. Write. Get to the end. Then revise.

Best of luck.

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