TheokinsJ
Troubadour
It's something that has plagued me for the last few weeks, I only began writing my story a month or so ago, and now a couple of chapters in, I am constantly wrestling with the idea to scrap and rewrite. I think the stuff I write is good, I read it and it needs a bit of editing but on the whole it seems ok, yet I still feel the need to rewrite it. When I'm writing, I have this mentality of "This is not the final result, it doesn't have to be perfect", and this hinders me, especially when I AM try to write a flawless, final result. Example, I write chapter one a week ago, and it seems perfect. I wake up today, read it and think to myself "I need to rewrite this, it's ok... but it could be better". I don't mind doing this, it can only help me improve my writing, but it hinders me because I'm getting nowhere, I write a chapter and then decide to rewrite the past three, it's a continuous circle of writing then rewriting, any suggestions on how I could make progress and stop constantly questioning my own abilities?