I have a problem with endings – this has been pointed out to me. Maybe because I casually mentioned I have yet to watch the last two episodes of Buffy the Vampire Slayer because I wasn’t ready for it to be over. There is also another tv series I’ve done that with – the last two episodes are unwatched – I have them, I have all of them. :)
I realize this is an issue for me – or I should say I now recognize that it is an issue for me. That is why my story – we’ll call it SR – that I started a few decades ago is still unfinished. I have a rough outline of what will happen at the end – some bullet points – but the end is yet unwritten. And every time I pick it up to end it, I simply add more to the meaty parts. (don’t even ask how long it is)
I like to refer to SR as my Immortal Beloved. I love it so much – every story I’ve written since then has grown from their world. I’ve been afraid to end it, because I don’t want to say good bye to those characters – crazy, right?
What all this background info is leading up to is my current work in progress. And how my issues with endings is affecting this one now. I have an ending, a pretty solid one if I do say so myself, however it is the events leading up to it that have numerous holes, thereby preventing me from completing the manuscript. And now that I’m only two weeks away from November when NaNoWriMo starts, I’ve packed it away. I’m taking off from writing for the next two weeks to read and relax before the craziness of writing 50,000 words in one month!
Fingers crossed, once November is over and I pick up that WIP I’ll be able to finally kill off that character I’ve been meaning to and finish it.
OR, perhaps I’ll pick up SR instead and end it.
Book I picked to read this week: Vince Flynn’s American Assassin.