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I can never finish anything I write
I've started at least 3 novels and I always lose inspiration after a little bit. I have some great ideas and I'd like to complete them, for once. What can I do?
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First off, I want to commend you for having started three different novels. It's a very good thing, and having lots of different ideas and stories to look back is great. You can find inspiration later on, it happens in many cases.
I'm a writer myself, and I have found myself in this situation more than a few times. Here's what I do -- I keep everything I've started to give me inspiration later on, and once I start something that I really like and have confidence in, I give myself a limit of words per day. Mine is 1,500 words. But you could set the limit to whatever you'd like.
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Writing a book can take months or years. At this stage of your life it's important to learn how to write better than your peers and your teac her expects out of you. You are doing a very good thing by practising your writing trying to write a novel.
Whether or not you complete a book or not at this stage does not matter all that much. What really matters are the lessons in writing it will teach you. You need to develop editing skills, learn to re-write, spell properly, vary the length of your sentences, learn how to write a topic/lead sentence and expand on things.
It's okay to lose interest after a bit in something you are writing. Thois is normal and a good thing. All writers take a break from what they are writing and even sleep on it or shelve the project until they come up with new ideas.
There is nothing wrong with that. Like I said, the best thing to do is continue writing and learning more about how a professional writes. You may also want to use an outline that shows you roughly where you want to go with your story and use that to guide you.
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hey, well maybe you could write smaller books. that way they wouldnt be as hard to write. maybe childrens books are also an option for you. oh and just so you know you dont have to write the whole book all at once in a certain time period. some writters experience writters block and need some time off to think of good endings. give it a few weeks then write more.
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I've had that problem. Well what I did was find an ending that you think would be interesting. And work your way there so you know that you want to make it there. It usually works.
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