On the issue of finishing: I never dreamed I could complete more than a haiku for a long time. Then I did the mandatory academic writing, and then wrote a textbook. Somewhere in there I learned how to finish a book by taking it a little chunk at a time and also by not demanding perfection of myself. And what I have written is truly a long way from perfect, but it is done!
I suspect there are two kinds of novels (like dissertations): good ones and completed ones.
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On the issue of finishing: I never dreamed I could complete more than a haiku for a long time. Then I did the mandatory academic writing, and then wrote a textbook. Somewhere in there I learned how to finish a book by taking it a little chunk at a time and also by not demanding perfection of myself. And what I have written is truly a long way from perfect, but it is done!
I suspect there are two kinds of novels (like dissertations): good ones and completed ones.