Trashing Too Many Proyects

I think I have some seven or eight novel-length peices of fiction that I've abandoned in favor of writing something that doesn't suck.

Now, I wrote most of those in high school (what? i was bored.) and I've come quite a ways from that level of writing. I thought they were good at the time. But I know that they're really not worth salvaging now.

Depending on the level of work a story needs, it may not be a bad idea to force yourself to take one of the better novels and rework it until it is worth keeping. You'll learn that delightful art of revision and you'll have at least one novel that isn't trashed.

What is it that makes you think the novels need to be trashed? The story? The characters? Or just the writing style? Work on that. Either rework the novel to fix the problems that make you inclined to trash it or (and?) work on fixing that problem in the next novel you write.

As long as you are working to get better, I'm not sure it matters how many novels you write that aren't worth seeing the light of day. With the exception of you abandoning a project because it's not as fun anymore... finishing what you start is a good skill to learn.