The Trouble with Writing

The trouble with writing is

you can never finish.

No matter how much you write,

there's always more to be written:

another scene,

another conversation,

another crisis

lurking in the wings

of the writer's mind.



The trouble with a story is

it never ends.

So if you think you've written the last chapter

of your Great American Novel,

solved the problems,

killed off the villains,

wedded the heroes,

and tied up the loose ends

of all the characters' lives,

you are mistaken.



After the book has gone to print,

you will lie awake and think of more.

You will dream of the unwritten scenes

and the unspoken words.

In your mind,

the story will go on forever.



It isn't over because

you aren't over,

and as long as you live,

your story will live, too.