Back when I was writing a lot of fiction (is this ten years ago now? Oh my) I often felt like it was all garbage. The only thing that finally resulted in me producing something was a self-imposed requirement that I write for at least two hours, even if it was just two hours of writing garbage. Few of those words made it into the story, but they often preceded many words that did make it into the story.
I'd read more. Liked the feel of it.
Back when I was writing a lot of fiction (is this ten years ago now? Oh my) I often felt like it was all garbage. The only thing that finally resulted in me producing something was a self-imposed requirement that I write for at least two hours, even if it was just two hours of writing garbage. Few of those words made it into the story, but they often preceded many words that did make it into the story.