Hitting "The End"
October 12, 2001
7:25 a.m.
Sign of the times: I use a personalized MyYahoo as my browser home page. I couldn't get to it yesterday, and the first thing I thought was "I wonder if someone blew up the server?" Is that weird or what?   I finished a short story through second draft this morning. It still needs a little smoothing and shaping, but it's nearly ready for the next phase in its development--that being readers. Of course, I still need a title. It's nice to type The End some place and kind of mean it. I've really missed that feeling of completion. I think that's a problem for me as a novelist. I'm a person who thrives in environments where there are deadlines and goals and where things come to a closure. Short stories are great for me that way. You start, you struggle, things come into focus, and boom you're done. The End. Closure. Ahhhh ... Novels aren't really like that. Novels are just pain, pain, pain -- do it again. Of course, I might be just a tad overly sensitive about the subject right now. Have a great day.  Daily Persistence is © Ron Collins |
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As an artist, my self respect comes from doing the work. One performance at a time, one gig at a time, one painting at a time. Two and a half years to make a 90-minute piece of film. Five drafts of one play. Two years working on a musical. Throughout it all, daily, I show up at the morning pages and I write about my ugly curtains, my rotten haircut, my delight in the way the light hit the trees on the morning run. Julia Cameron |
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