i want to write, i write short stories and poems and pages on real life. Now i want to write a book even if it is a short book but when i get started i can never finish cause i believe the hole thing is bad. I don't finish is i don't like it or if i think its to much or not enough
The best way to get started with writing is to just write and not worry if it's any good. Write what comes to mind. Real things and fiction. Anything goes, especially here on Writing.Com where the aim is to get better through interactions with other writers.
One thing to consider working on is spelling. Just from this notebook entry here, I can see that you don't take spelling very serious. What is accepted in text messages and maybe Twitter doesn't really work when you want to start writing things that you want others to read.
To be sure, we all have typos. Stephen King makes typos. It's the nature of the beast. But you should clean up your spelling to the best of your abilities. Otherwise, it comes across as if you don't care. And if you don't care, why should anyone else?
By the way, you can go collect your first special merit badges. In the left sidebar, go to My Account, go to Achievements. Next, open up your email and and see your new shiny badges.
To add some advice (as much as I don't like offering advice in something as personal as writing), if you want to write a book and have already written short stories, then you have ideas. So, take an idea for a story and map it out. Then add a few more complications. Give the characters extra hurdles to overcome. Concentrate on a lot more showing, especially how character/s are feeling about their situation.
Next, take your time. Don't rush. If you need to set it aside for a few weeks, then do so. And ignore how you feel about the story - we all go through that ("imposter syndrome"). Work towwards finishing it, then you can go back and edit, or redraft completely.
But, really, it is all up to you; it is your motivations and your determination that will see you get somewhere as a writer. Writing is a very personal thing. Only you can do it.
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The best way to get started with writing is to just write and not worry if it's any good. Write what comes to mind. Real things and fiction. Anything goes, especially here on Writing.Com where the aim is to get better through interactions with other writers.
One thing to consider working on is spelling. Just from this notebook entry here, I can see that you don't take spelling very serious. What is accepted in text messages and maybe Twitter doesn't really work when you want to start writing things that you want others to read.
To be sure, we all have typos. Stephen King makes typos. It's the nature of the beast. But you should clean up your spelling to the best of your abilities. Otherwise, it comes across as if you don't care. And if you don't care, why should anyone else?
By the way, you can go collect your first special merit badges. In the left sidebar, go to
To add some advice (as much as I don't like offering advice in something as personal as writing), if you want to write a book and have already written short stories, then you have ideas. So, take an idea for a story and map it out. Then add a few more complications. Give the characters extra hurdles to overcome. Concentrate on a lot more showing, especially how character/s are feeling about their situation.
Next, take your time. Don't rush. If you need to set it aside for a few weeks, then do so. And ignore how you feel about the story - we all go through that ("imposter syndrome"). Work towwards finishing it, then you can go back and edit, or redraft completely.
But, really, it is all up to you; it is your motivations and your determination that will see you get somewhere as a writer. Writing is a very personal thing. Only you can do it.
Good luck going forward.