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Finish what you start

Just a quick goal for this week: Finish a story

I’d have to take off my shoes and socks to count the number of stories I’ve started in the past few years that I’ve started but haven’t finished. It’s so much easier for me to report and write a news story than it is to sustain a great fiction idea long enough to finish it before I loose interest.

Too bad fiction writing isn’t like journalism. Otherwise I could just go and interview someone, and have 90% of the story done already. With fiction you are the witness. You are the expert. You kinda have to interview yourself. That’s hard, because you have to make up the answers as well as the questions.