The One and Only Reason to Finish Your Writing
A novel, a game, a film or whatever you are working on
When you get an idea itching inside, it oozes with potential. Maybe you even feel like it is the best thing you came up with, something that can grant you eternal peace after it’s written down for your descendants to worship.
Experienced writers know that it happens once or twice a week. They also know that the idea by itself is worthless and may easily be razed to the ground after a couple of pages.
With a highly analytical mind, it can be impossible to finish your writing. If the voice of reason tells you that your novel/script/article is garbage and all your brain does is generate a bullet-point list of critical flaws, that’s time to give up.
Or is it?
When you get the initial itch, there’s something special agitating you. My point is, the itch to act is the only absolute reason to start and finish your work. Because concepts that interest you will most probably interest someone else. If your writing will end up boring, well, it still carries over that captivating concept at its root.
The thing to be worried about is the originality of your initial concept. It is only logical because much more realistic for any writer would be to work on developing an interesting concept further into the unknown, than to come up with something unprecedented. Even more unlikely is to develop the novel idea to perfection (though one could argue that a truly novel idea would be perfect by definition).
So what is the meaning of this?
- Don’t surrender just now.
- Do your research, and avoid repetition.
If you began writing— then complete it, at least make it acceptable to publish as is. Because if you came up with an idea and don’t finish it — then someone else has to do it in the future. Yes, it can be a pain in the ass to write that story of yours to an end, but it will be much easier to read, digest and carry over components nutritious for our minds. And come on, when was the last time something good was written like it’s a doodle?
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