I’d find myself writing consistently for a few days or weeks, followed by months of crippling Writer’s Block.
Because of this it would take me 6-14 months to finish even a single draft…
I found myself running into roadblock after roadblock, constantly getting stuck partway through a chapter or scene…
I had no idea how to tie all of my story threads together so my story was cohesive.
Even worse, my characters had no personalities, my dialogue was flat, and my pacing was all over the place…
Every draft required tons of extensive, made-me-want-to-yank-out-my-hair editing...
And then after all of that work, I would read the latest version of my manuscript with disgust, knowing it was still so far from where I wanted it to be.