writing frustrations

[Gavin Luper]

Taking months to write a chapter because you keep second-guessing yourself.

And trying to write perfectly. I don't know about everyone else, but I don't seem to draft, I just expect my writing to be perfect the first time it tumbles onto the page, which means I end up putting way too much pressure on myself every time I go to write, and end up being dissatisfied with anything less than what I think is good.

[Astinus]

Taking months to write a chapter because you keep second-guessing yourself.

I understand how that feels. XD

That's why it took me longer than expected to finish the first draft of my fanfic, because I just couldn't get the words to sound "right" in my head. x.X Whenever I think I could finally move on from the scene, I would read it over, think it didn't make sense or that it could be better, and rewrite it again.

Finally, to fix that, I just moved on to write the rest of the fic and come back to that one scene. By that time, I was ready to write it so I could finally call that fic "finished", so I wrote out the scene, and was able to see it as "good".

And the other things people have said have frustrated me as well. I know how it feels.