User blog comment:Kolpik/Sometimes I even Ugh Myself/@comment-26326346-20180930103444

I have had quite a few stories that were like that for me and I tried to save them, but ended up just deleting and not posting them; one of them was a story that had over 40,000 words poured into it. My philosophy is that if I am not enjoying reading something that I wrote, then it gets the ax. If the creator cannot enjoy it, then why would anyone else?

Most people look at that as a waste, but I think a better way of looking at it is, "Oh, okay. That didn't work out here, but maybe it can fit better elsewhere in a different story?" One example of that is an Atlantis story I tried working on and scrapped, I have a new and neat idea for the lore of the Lost City of Atlantis that I wouldn't have had if the original story had proceeded as planned.

If you have too much trouble and are just hating what you wrote, then it's probably time to move on to something else.