Bleck a few months later?

It's all part of the learning curve. If you realize it sucks that much, you've come very far.

If you still love the concept, rewrite it.

If it's fatally flawed, start something new.

I've been through allll the phases.

Love it, hate it, love it again, want to rewrite it and then hate the side of it....

The good news is, once you progress as a writer, it does tend to get better. You still sometimes hate your writing (at least, I do) but you also tend to love it a whole lot more. Because you see yourself getting better.

That makes me happy.

Totally normal And first drafts always suck. That's why everyone says to shelve a new project for a few months and get some distance on it. We always love what we write, so we don't see the flaws until we have some emotional seperation from it. Keyboards have a delete key for a reason! Don't fret and just make it better now that can see it objectively.

Good luck!

In a box somewhere I have PILES of garbage I wrote years ago. Stuff that I would never, EVER consider trying to have published.

I actually use that as a benchmark of a good book. Like, my book coming out next month. We were doing edits, and I still like it. Alot.

I mean, there were PARTS I hated, so I fixed them. And sure, when you write something and get distance, it's going to be flawed. As someone else said, if you still really hate it after a couple of drafts, pitch it and start over.

For sure. I wrote my first manuscript when I was 17. God, it was horrible and so cliche.