When I was a little kid I wanted to be a writer, I read loads of books on writing and was usually ahead of my class in terms of composition and comprehension, those dreams fell off somewhere. Recently I've tried writing, even wrote a short story, showed it to some people and got good reviews of it. I would really like to write a novel length story, and I already have multiple projects started, but I often drift of that focus and forget about them till I see the file or something. My problem is I have a great base for the story, I know how I want it to end, and I know what I want it to mean, but I have a hard time putting meaning to writing that would be novel length or without directly saying it. I get to around 20-40 pages on word and then I start rethinking and eventually just stop writing it. It's really hard, atleast for me, to write a novel length piece from the beginning and distinguish a good detail from a useless one