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Finishing is Better than Not — But You Won’t Always Finish What You Start
Finishing your book, painting, or whatever is better than not finishing — but you won’t always finish.
This weekend, before going out of town, I took a moment to back up current active files to my flash drive.
Specifically, my writing. The books I have underway and the ones I’m currently plotting. I also grabbed the last several blogs I hadn’t previously saved to my thumb drive, too.
Yes, yes, I should probably actively back things up to the cloud. I’m forced to admit I have a tough time with cloud backups because I’m a bit paranoid about their security. Insert jokes about the old man shouting at the cloud here.
Anyhow — as I was backing things up to my flash drive, I realized numerous files across my documents are half-started stories. A few paragraphs here, an outline there, several pages, or a random idea ranging over multiple years and genres.
It occurred to me that it would be a good idea to create a new folder and move them into it. As I went through the files, before long I was looking at about 30 incomplete works.
Granted, there are duplicates. On at least 2 occasions, it’s glossaries of characters and stuff related to…
