>write part of a chapter >read it 2 weeks later >delete

Don't just delete everything. Salvage any passages you think are decent and save them in a notebook. Organize notebook by topic. When something else you start writing brings you to a similar topic, rip anything good out of that notebook and for it in. Later, cull this project the same way. Repeat process until most of your text is not shit.

Tl;Dr be Thoreau

>>8445128
came to post this basically

Make outline

git gud lad

>>8445169
this

people who dont outline make it harder for themselves down the line tbqh

Write better chapters.

You do that by not deleting your shit, and instead learning from your mistakes. This is elementary, friend.

>outline entirety of plot, setting, characters of a novel
>try writing it
>discover that I am a terribad writer
>realize I hadn't read a book in years
>spend the next 2 years reading books /lit/ told me are good
>now understand how it's supposed to actually work

read more, me buck-o.

>>8445169
>>8445219
What you mean?

>he thinks writers just write a chapter and that's that

Günter Grass wrote 3 pages in 5 hours. And why did it take so long? Because you write and observe, rewrite and observe, rewrite and so on. It takes a shit ton of work to get something to sound really right. As others have said: Look at the passages were you feel something was right, think about what it is that strikes you as good and if not then try to analyze what you don't like.

More importantly though, imo, is to finish what you're writing. This is why i stick to smaller texts or short stories. Finish what you are writing so that you can look at something that is whole, this way it's much easier to salvage something, to see what kind of writer you are and what you can't do so well and what you can

>>8445584
If you don't know what an outline is you may be beyond help

>>8445606
Obviously I know what an outline is. But explain how to go about it and how it helps?

>>8445123
>delete it
You dun fucked up

>>8445650
I'm not those guys, but there's no one way to outline a novel.

I typically start with several bullet points outlining basic ideas and any more detailed ones might have right away. The next step for me is deciding how many sections or chapters to divide it into and coming up with rough 3 sentence to paragraph-long sketches of what actually happens in each one. The rest is typically filled in during the actual writing process.

I don't use all of these ideas once I actually start writing, and may even diverge from my initial structure early on if I see it's not working for me, but typically at least 70% of the initial ideas make it into the first draft even if it's not exactly in the same form as they were in the early outline.

To me this is helpful in that the writing itself comes out faster and is more cohesive if I know what I want to do with it beforehand. Also it gives the ideas behind the writing more time to develop, which helps if you're trying to write something more meaningful than genreshit.