Vicious Cycle

Does anyone else ever get the sense when they’re writing that what they’re really doing is making a mess? Is that just me? I can’t produce much more than a thousand words without going back to remove the rough edges and sort out the chaos. And even after I do that, I feel like what I have is still just a mess.

Nothing I write is ever worth reading until I’ve gone over it enough times that I can bear to look at it anymore…which of course means it’s not worth reading.