I've been working on a story for the past 8 years. I wrote it back in 2012 for the first time, but I noticed it could be improved: I worked on it and then wrote it from scratch during these past 2 years. I'm at the second re-reading now, but it doesn't satisfy me. Some scenes are really bad, the characters are flat, the story has lots of fillers. I want to start it again from scratch. But it feels like I failed. All these years, and still no story. Do you think it's okay to start it again?