>spend an hour writing >finish one paragraph how do people

Pringles taste fucking awful.

>spend eight months writing
>finish three sentences

Stop googling for things, just write.
Plot in more detail first, include stuff that's just there in the scenery in the notes and it'll help when you just flesh it out

>>9747395
The paragraph likely still sucks, spend another hour on it. Then repeat this process several thousand times and maybe you'll be a writer one day.

>spend 4 years writing
>get drunk and delete it all out of embarrassment
>realize what I've done the morning after

>>9747422
You know there are some great free data retrieval programs available.
Might be a bit late for it now.

>>9747395
Write what you know, keep it confined. Try to segment parts of your story. It's not an encyclopedia, there should be a broader narrative that is internally coherent, and if what happens within that narrative isn't wholly factual that doesn't really matter. That's partly why books like Infinite Jest and GR are so highly considered, they're very broad in scope yet intricately detailed. Welcome to writing kiddodo

>>9747408
You've been seeking the mot juste?

>get an amazing idea that you'd know would be a bestseller and work out all the characters
>spend an hour writing
>don't really like it anymore

>>9747554
Sounds like it was a great idea

>>9747395

A good general knowledge of what you're writing about will allow you to know what questions to ask when you get stuck. I also do a lot of preliminary research before I even start writing, though this approach tends to result in procrastination by research until I lose interest and begin a new project. When I power through, though, it is well worth the effort.

>>9747395
I have the same problem, but on the other end of the spectrum
>Introduce characters, setting, plot, scene change, dialog, scene change, exposition-
>3 pages
what the fuck?