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TheokinsJ
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I've read a lot of advice above saying, "Just finish your work."
I'm inferring that this admonition is meant to be heeded regardless of circumstances, and I'm not sure I agree.
To the OP:
Where are you in your writing career? Are you good enough to know that what you're producing is or isn't complete crap?
At some point, your focus needs to be on finishing new material. Until you get to a stage where you can produce good material, finishing, imo, isn't any better than not finishing.
I've long advocated that:
1. Write something
2. Get feedback
3. Revise based on that feedback
4. Go back to step 2
is the path to improvement.
Basically, to me, your initial post didn't provide enough information to answer the question. Do you need to focus on finishing or on improvement?
In terms of my writing skill, I believe my writing is pretty good, it's not perfect- no one's is, but it's not so much my writing that I want to focus on, it's more on finishing and actually making progress with the story, rather than editing whilst writing.