I just finished your book and it was so perfect and I'm recommending it to all of my friends/people I know because I don't really have friends. I really want to tell stories, but I can never bring myself to write more than a few pages because I get really

I hate giving and reading writing advice because I never want to discourage anyone or post any “rules,” because rules are dumb and what works for me might not work for you, and that doesn’t make either one of us a stronger writer than the other. So as always, take what I say with a grain of bullshit.

In my worthless opinion, it looks like your writing goal right now is to write something great. You lose confidence because your ambition is to write something that kicks ass, and three pages in you stop because the ass your kicking isn’t as large and as firm as you’d initially intended. So you quit, having crumbled in the shadow of your massive goal.

So I’d say change your goal. Right now, your goal is to make something great; have you considered shifting your goal to “make something PERIOD?” Don’t try to write Gatsby, just focus on finishing something (knowing you can come back later to bring it a few more inches closer to perfect). If I had focused on making any one chapter of my book perfect in the first draft, the book never would have gotten written. The thought process was “Just get through this fucking chapter and then future Daniel will fix it later.”

If you want to get into running, you shouldn’t start out saying “I’m going to run a marathon and break world records TOMORROW.” That’s how you get hurt, burn yourself out and quit, because you’ve given yourself a goal you can’t achieve.

First drafts are never great, but they are complete, and that’s all you can ask of a first draft.