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Have you heard of the Snowflake Method? Might be worth a try, especially if you already have some work done. I tried this once and ended up veering off a little bit from the "plan" towards the end, but it did get me far enough along that I was able to finish it on my own terms.

I try really hard to write start-to-finish, but I always get bored with a certain part and then disregard the rest xD What I started doing after my not-entirely-failed snowflake attempt was writing the entire outline of the story from start to finish, and then use that as a skeleton to jump around and write whichever part I feel like.

Do what you like and like what you do biggrin That's the important part. Maybe one day you will find the thing that makes it click for you.

Sounds just like me.
But I'm someone who will also delete unfinished stories after a while. lol

You start writing a story because you have an idea. That idea may not always be the beginning of the story. If your idea sounds like it would fit better in the middle of a story, start there. Plotting ideas helps a lot for me. Sometimes my idea will come from a dream, but the next day I only remember part of that dream. Try writing a middle chapter or two then, with that idea in mind, go back and start a first chapter. The first couple chapters are usually to inform readers on the main character(s), their life, the personality, etc. Hints to why they are the easier chapters to write.
The book I'm writing right now, I already have almost completely planned out. I got the idea from a TV documentary about Autism. I, honestly, don't have the patience (or time for that matter) to use the Snowflake Method.
If I didn't help at all, try taking bits and pieces of the books you've already written. Take the one that is your personal favorite and use that character, then you can try taking other plots from the books you've started. I know a couple of my friends do that and they have wonderful stories.

I tend to have this problem as well. I was once working on a fanfic, and it took me a year before I could put up the final chapter. I was having difficulty making the chapter seem good enough to read, and rewrote it about five or six times.

Anyways, I only finished it due to the fact that I wanted to write others. If you have an idea that is thought out well enough for you to write it, try holding off on writing other things until you finish it. That's the way I do it, but it may not work for most.

lol i have a story that isn't finished yet and it's been like five years since i've touched it.