Does anyone else have this problem when writing?

[Sara2000Z]

I probably have 100 stories started and partially completed. Some are just a start with the characters being introduced, some I stall out on the details because I don't want to to seem like a copy of another story or too formulaic. Sometimes I get a second and third followup to a story started that might be better than the original but I can't finish the first one. I leave most of them alone fora while and get back to them and try to finish when I get an idea.

Some of the best advice I've had is that you gotta get that 'shitty first draft' out - just blurt it all out without (too much) consideration for how polished it is, or how repetitive or dull. It's only after that's out - the people are there, the plot is there, in outline form from beginning to middle to end - that it's time to go back and assess it with a more clinical eye. That's when you can adjust the language, or delete whole chunks of text you hate on reflection, etc ... I guess that's something else that computers are good for. Editing!

 

[plesmoreagain]

(when GF isn't hassling me like a cat that needs attention).

WTF?