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trouble finishing stories
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<blockquote data-quote="Tuur" data-source="post: 76965669" data-attributes="member: 445885"><p>I have countless stories I haven't finished. I also have others than I have. The difference is that with those I finished, I had a definite conclusion in mind before I began.</p><p></p><p>I'm not big on outlining, but it has helped salvage two novels that seemed to be going nowhere. Maybe that would work with a short story.</p><p></p><p>As to the length of a story, sometimes a story grows because it needs that many words to tell. I have a novella that was to be a short story, but became something else. Test readers thought it moved too fast and would be better as a longer yarn. By the same token, I had a short story I tried to make shorter, and it ruined it.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Tuur, post: 76965669, member: 445885"] I have countless stories I haven't finished. I also have others than I have. The difference is that with those I finished, I had a definite conclusion in mind before I began. I'm not big on outlining, but it has helped salvage two novels that seemed to be going nowhere. Maybe that would work with a short story. As to the length of a story, sometimes a story grows because it needs that many words to tell. I have a novella that was to be a short story, but became something else. Test readers thought it moved too fast and would be better as a longer yarn. By the same token, I had a short story I tried to make shorter, and it ruined it. [/QUOTE]
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