the finish line
Why is it so cursed hard to finish a story? I know that I have attachment issues, but to stories?! Even though the ending is often the first thing I plan in a story, they're still difficult to write, more because I lose the momentum than anything else.
Finally I managed to complete Eleanor Digby (PG-13) and make it work the way I wanted, but my other almost-completed story just won't come out. Stupid "Fires Within", it turned into a monstrous piece of garbage with a few very nice parts, but a plot that fizzled into confusion. Yet I still have that story to thank for a lot of things - it's been three years since I started it, so you can just imagine the progress to be found within it.
But I'm afraid to stop the story too abruptly or that I'll change something that I forgot from a few chapters back or I'll just screw it up in a way that readers will hate me for. People have told me that it's good - people that I trust to be reasonable and who know their stuff - but it still doesn't help.
Maybe I've just become so enthralled in planning new stories (I have at least two in the works) that I've lost the thread of FW. Or maybe I just have to wait longer for the right inspiration and inclination to come.
Finally I managed to complete Eleanor Digby (PG-13) and make it work the way I wanted, but my other almost-completed story just won't come out. Stupid "Fires Within", it turned into a monstrous piece of garbage with a few very nice parts, but a plot that fizzled into confusion. Yet I still have that story to thank for a lot of things - it's been three years since I started it, so you can just imagine the progress to be found within it.
But I'm afraid to stop the story too abruptly or that I'll change something that I forgot from a few chapters back or I'll just screw it up in a way that readers will hate me for. People have told me that it's good - people that I trust to be reasonable and who know their stuff - but it still doesn't help.
Maybe I've just become so enthralled in planning new stories (I have at least two in the works) that I've lost the thread of FW. Or maybe I just have to wait longer for the right inspiration and inclination to come.