Hello, anons. There’s a magazine made by and for students from my course, and I’d like to submit one of my works to appear alongside other texts and drawings sent in by my classmates. The thing is, I’ve had a problem for a while now (3 years): I sketch out ideas for texts but never finish them, and most don’t even get past the planning stage (just the premise description).

But I really want my text to appear there. I also have a vague but interesting idea of what to write about. Do you have any advice that could help me actually finish this text?

Main reasons I abandon drafts:

- Sometimes I finish a writing session and set the manuscript aside to continue later, but I never return to it—maybe because writing is more demanding than just using the computer.
- What I’ve written turns out so good that I’m afraid to keep developing the story and end up ruining it somehow.
- A bit related to the previous one (this happened once or twice): I don’t have enough knowledge or experience to handle certain elements that are essential to the idea, so I don’t know how to work with or develop the premise (for example: a London forensic journalist who goes insane and kills his girlfriend).

Those are the reasons I can remember. There may be others, but I thought it was relevant to list them anyway. There are 10 days left until the manuscript submission deadline, and I’ll be busy studying, so I don’t have much time to write.

And I repeat: do you have any advice that could help me finish this text?

Thank you.