Re-Writing - Comments

@ nearly witches.

Anyone can throw words on a page and call it a story, but it takes time and effort to make it really pop. Like you said you spend more time on technical accuracy and that's pretty much what I do. I try to make it completely perfect which then makes me lose interest. (Sorry my Mibba has been a little iffy with comments)

@ Michael Westen

I do take breaks every so often but I always come back and continue doing what I did before. It's an endless cycle of uninspired stories.

Don't give up. Maybe just take a break.

I definitely have had the same problem, and what I found is that I didn't even like the story I was working on. So I moved on. Sometimes I still feel like what I write down is utter crap compared to what's in my head, but then I remember that I'm my own worst critic, so of course I'll think everything I write is crap.

Like I said though, don't give up.

This absolutely happens to me too. I also find that when I continue to re-write, I end up spending more time on technical accuracy than I do on actually making the story interesting for anyone who might end up reading it. Thing is, I know that some of my stories need re-written, but now I don't want to do that because I feel like they lose something when I re-write them, but I have absolutely no inspiration left any more, not even for the stories that I haven't finished.

I mean, I think maybe it has to do with what you said about being unable to match it up on paper. I have these amazing ideas in my head, but when I write them down they just seem pretty uninteresting (at least to me) and it makes me doubt what I'm doing a little bit, y'know?

So you're definitely not alone. I feel ya on this, it really sucks.