[bquinn]

For some reason I thought of this post when I read this story, so I came back to post the link: http://www.guardian.co.uk/books/2010/feb/20/ten-rules-for-wr...

It's about writing fiction, but I think we can learn a lot from people who spend years holed up in a loft with a laptop typing out tens of thousands of words that may or may not ever be seen by anyone.

One theme that resonated with me is that you should try to get to something you can vaguely call "finished" as soon as you can: have something on the page that you can then come back and edit, refactor, tinker with. Might help. Good luck.