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For those that have trouble finishing things, I have a question: How often do you finish anything? Are you interested in finishing your work or is it something that if it happens, it happens? I'm just curious in that regard. I oftentimes think finishing something is really more important that ever publishing it. Of course you can't do one without the other, but the sense of accomplishment I feel when I actually finish something is pretty good.
Once a week, I complete a flash fiction piece that sometimes gets added to the shelf of things to expand later when I get time. Once every other week I get a proper short story completed. I aim to increase that to one proper short story a week, which I'll revise after finishing then set aside for a week to revise again. Then I revise one more time and submit.
This week, though? It's been crazy good/productive despite a computer that is on its last legs and not being able to write anything beyond flash fiction since Monday. And now that I'm being forced to sit down and work on ideas with pen and paper, I have twenty-ish new ideas all lined up and ready to go. Which means, I should never gripe about not having anything to do ever again.
I've also submitted a piece, been rejected, fixed the piece and submitted it to a different market.
Finishing something is awesome. But the feeling I get when I submit something is even better. It's only then that I feel like a proper writer.