Where things fall apart

I write a lot of stories, and I don't finish a lot of stories or I quit them before they are finished because I realize there is a flaw in the story so fundamentally bad that its not even worth reworking.

This begged the question, WHEN and WHERE during the process of writing, drawing and storyboarding the story did I go wrong?

It is always the very beginning of the process.

I will get an idea and I'll write a first draft, and maybe I'll write a second draft, and I get so excited with the story that I will jump right into the heavy lifting. What I should have been doing is setting the story down for a few days or weeks if I have that luxury and coming back to it fresh. With the goal of rewriting the story.

It's kind of like looking in a painting through a mirror, after not thinking about what you wrote for a while suddenly you are reading it as a reader, not a writer and all of the flaws poke out to you.

Then I should have been less afraid to completely revamp what i had written and come one with something new.