I quite liked the first answer he gave actually, about not wanting to finish a novel because you want to continue writing it for some reason. I identify with that I think.
For me, too, writing endings is part of my performance anxiety. I know a book gets bought on the beginning, but the *next* book gets bought on *this* ending, and that makes me often very afraid to get it "right".
LOL! It's not rocket science, is it? If every time you near the end of a novel it suddenly gets really difficult... you know it might be because you are subconsciously sabotaging yourself. Good lord, who'd have thought it?
Oh and 'the end must have a sense of closure' *g*. (I shouldn't laugh, because I've read enough stories where I got to the end and wondered if I'd missed a page because it just stopped in mid flow. But you would have hoped this kind of thing was obvious.)
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Date: 2009-02-22 07:16 pm (UTC)For me, too, writing endings is part of my performance anxiety. I know a book gets bought on the beginning, but the *next* book gets bought on *this* ending, and that makes me often very afraid to get it "right".
But that's already a discussion for meta_writer.
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Date: 2009-02-22 10:23 pm (UTC)Oh and 'the end must have a sense of closure' *g*. (I shouldn't laugh, because I've read enough stories where I got to the end and wondered if I'd missed a page because it just stopped in mid flow. But you would have hoped this kind of thing was obvious.)
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