The 7 Types of New Writer – Part 6

🔁 Quick Recap:

So far, we’ve met:

The Eternal Outliner – too prepared to begin
The Scene-Hopper – chasing the highs, ignoring the glue
The Over-Editor – stuck polishing page one
The Praise Addict – writing for approval
The Fearful Genius – scared to ruin a great idea

Today: the writer who has plenty of writing… just not one finished draft.

✍️ Post #6: The I’ll-Finish-It-One-Day

Subtitle: You’re halfway through five different projects—but swear you’ll come back to them. Eventually.

🧠 Who They Are:

The I’ll-Finish-It-One-Day writer is overflowing with creativity.
They get excited. They start new things. They generate characters, scenes, entire universes.

But they don’t finish them.

Because there’s always something new to chase. Or something to fix. Or just… life. They aren’t blocked, they say. Just busy. They’ll come back to it soon.

They always mean to finish. They just never get around to it.

💪 Strengths:

Endlessly creative
Quick to generate ideas
Comfortable jumping into a draft
Knows what kind of stories excite them

⚠️ Pitfalls:

Constantly distracted by “shiny new ideas”
Avoids the hard middle stretch of writing
Overestimates how much time they’ll have later
Keeps starting over instead of pushing through

🔓 Why You Stay Stuck:

Finishing means committing.
It means choosing one project and seeing it through the sloggy bits, the “meh” days, and the self-doubt.

But committing feels like closing a door on all your other ideas.

So instead, you stay in motion—but never cross the finish line.

You think you’re stuck at the start.
But you’re actually afraid of the middle.

✅ Next Steps for the I’ll-Finish-It-One-Day:

Pick one project. No, not all of them. Just one.
Create a “No New Ideas” notebook. Jot new story sparks there—but don’t chase them (yet).
Schedule a weekly word count goal. Small but consistent.
Give yourself a deadline. Even if it’s fake. Even if it’s just for you.

🔖 Badge of Honor:

“Project Monogamist (For Now). Finishing Is the New Starting.”

💬 Comment Prompt:

What’s your oldest unfinished draft? Drop the title (or the number of years) below.
👇 Or just say “I’m picking one.” We’ll hold you to it.

Writester