Martin posted a thread about start to finish, how many unfinished songs do you have and I had to laugh because I don't have a single finished song. But I've only been at this since early this year, so I'm learning a lot of skills at once that pertain to the process. Plus, I've been doing this along with taking a college program in another field, so it's taking me awhile to polish anything. Still, I thought it would be fun to see how long it took to write your first finished song.
Don't know about anyone else, but "finished" is a funny concept. Is any song that is imperfect actually "finished?" But you have to stop somewhere.
Even when you DO "stop somewhere" ten years down the road when your skills and perspectives have grown and/or changed, you can "further finish" a song that had been "stopped somewhere."
I have exactly zero "finished songs." And at the same time I have about 800 "finished songs" that were "stopped somewhere."