>>122453916Having fun and really trying aren't mutually exclusive.
Tryharding because you desperately want to 'make it' to serve your narcissistic needs will never succeed, and that is the very approach that leads to the need to 'finish' songs.
I learned this a long time ago with practicing piano where I had the inner urge to finish pieces to move to the next one. It was a major realization and the one thing that made it possible for me to get to a professional level: you don't finish something and move on. You build a repertoir, a pool of stuff you learned, and when you learn something new, you can go back to it and refine it and it continues like that for the rest of your life.
When you have done this for some time and reached a certain level you WILL finish stuff, you will have pieces that you can perform and you will have produced tracks you're proud of and you can maybe even place.
But if that's your goal to begin with you will fail with 100% certainty.
You can believe it or not. Most aspiring musicians never get it, and that's why most of them never make it. It's not black and white either, the fight againt your narcissism is a life long struggle for every artist.
Just ask yourself, why do you want to make music?