Ever wrote 1000 words of copy and, upon reviewing, decided that it’s utter rubbish? We’ve all had those days. Sometimes, the material we write just feels so off that we’d rather hit delete than try to fashion it into shape with the help of a writing software.

You are not alone unto that matter. All writers had already experience that situation. Just like you, every writer are trying to make it up to the required words or pages of content or any form of writings just to accomplish the task that was given unto you. But then, you need to read it all over again just to make sure that there are no errors in the spelling, punctuations and even with your grammars.

You also need to proofread these things to secure the correct format that you had applied in your writing. Though this is very important as a part of a writer’s task of checking the quality of his or her content, it is also the part where you might almost delete the entire sentence that you had just successfully completed.

That’s because while reading your piece, you might feel like you don’t need this sentence and that and then you will end up throwing your content away. This is really a waste if you do that even if you still have the chance to revise it well and make it a better sentence that before.

If you don’t know how to keep you contents after reading and revising it up again, you will surely put away all the efforts and time you had first applied on it while writing your piece. You don’t want to put it that way, right? Here is valuable advice that you’ll be best served hearing out, though: nothing that you write is ever a waste.

Instead of chucking the entire piece, I highly recommend just opening up another document for your second attempt. Regardless of how bad you think the original is, it carries innate value that can help you through the completion of the new piece you are doing.

For instance, the original copy you’ve written can serve as a reference for the updated piece. Instead of having to return to your notes or, worse, research again, you can simply use what you’ve previously written as your basis, since you’ve already did all the fact-checking while working on it. Additionally, rarely will you write entirely garbage pieces.

After the initial frustration you’re feeling has passed, you are more likely to notice a few well-written sentences and paragraphs among the flurry of words. If they fit in with the way you’re writing the new piece, you can simply cut and paste them. Instead of writing entirely from scratch, you can take the good parts from the previous version and use it to supplement your new one.

No work that goes into writing is ever a waste. Think about it – even the most badly-written pieces have allowed you to get a grasp of a subject. How bad is that?

Now, learn to value what you have started and created since all those writings came from your creative mind and ideas. After all, you can still create another piece with wonderful ideas that support the topic out of the first draft that you had made. It is useless to write if you damp all your drafts and start writing over and over again.