: 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

Pick One Thing and Stick To It

The thing you are working on right now will (probably) not be your magnum opus. Finish it anyway.

Ricky's answer would have been sufficient, but it feels necessary to add, in the context of multiple competing projects, that if you intend to finish things, you need to keep working on one of them.

Carry one project through to the end. It's fine if that story isn't everything you imagined it would be. But if you're ever going to write a magnum opus, first you have to write a thing. Not half a thing, or a quarter of a thing. All that nonsense of "the journey of a thousand miles" isn't actually nonsense. If you're 36,543 steps into something, keep adding steps. Don't ask for motivation - just tell yourself you're going to finish something, and don't let yourself start a new story until you do.

It's okay to not complete every story you start, but if you've recognized that your problem is not completing things, the only way you're ever going to fix that is to stick to a thing until it's finished.

Writing is work as well as play. Accept the work aspect, and work at it.

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