Well, it’s not time to break out the champagne yet.

March 7 question – How do you celebrate when you achieve a writing goal/ finish a story? 

When I finish a story (after lots of edits) I think I want to ‘tell’ the world all about it.  I mentioned in an earlier post that my mother had a cartoon next to her computer showing two people and one of them is saying, “Enough about me.  Let’s talk about my story!”

If I’m feeling very satisfied with what I’ve written it becomes a part of my life and has a reality all of its own.  It seems to suffuse into what I’m doing and thinking so it becomes hard to separate that it is not part of my real world.  Bringing it to a conclusion is almost a relief.  I can stop thinking about where it is going next and how my characters are going to ‘flow’ into that situation.  I can ‘come up for air’.

I will say I am ‘pleased’ with myself.  ‘Insufferable’ might be the term my husband and family use.  It is a huge time investment, so when it turns out the way you want it to, how can you not be happy about it?

Of course the next step is…will anyone else find it as wonderful as you do?  If they do, well, there is the true pleasure!

Insecure Writer’s Support Group – March 7  See links at bottom of their post.