You Have to Finish
"You have to finish -- that's what you learn from, you learn by finishing things." -Neil Gaiman That quote is sitting on my desktop right now, staring at me. I have two finished first drafts. One of them was in the midst of a rewrite when I was hit with a sudden and intense desire to do something else. Anything else. I couldn't concentrate on the writing. Maybe it was creative fatigue, or maybe it was guilt for spending so much time on something I like doing. It's ridiculous, but I grew up with the concept (largely from the Florida public school system) that if it doesn't hurt, it isn't work. And if it isn't work, than it isn't worth doing. No matter what the cause, I have yet to finish the rewrite. I thought focusing on some short stories would help. I thought that having something short published would push away the guilt with a little dose of commercial viability. There were two main problems with this plan: Short story markets a...