When I wrote the first draft of The Midnight House script, two things happened. The first, I was happy, elated to just have finished it. The second, was realizing that it needed to be better, a lot better.
The second part will happen every time and it sounds discouraging, but think of it this way: If you got to this point, you finished. It doesn’t sound like a lot, but whatever you happen to be writing, you can never finish it until your first draft is finished.
So, to that, I say, just write. Even if it seems things aren’t going exactly the way you want them or there is a sticky point in the story that you’re slogging through, just remember that your first draft has to be finished first and it doesn’t have to be great, or even good. Don’t be a perfectionist on your first draft. You can refine your prose and story later. The important thing is to get it all from your head and into writing.
When you do finish, give your self a few days or weeks of being happy you finished too. That helped me before I went back through and re-wrote the script.
I found myself giving this advice to my daughter who’s writing her own story. I was trying to encourage her and not to worry about it being just right before its even finished.
Like everything, writing is a process, sometimes a very long process, so try not to do too much on the first step of the journey.