Is It the Idea, or the Idea of the Idea You Love?

There is a difference between being rooted in an idea and stuck in an idea.

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For all the stories I have started and finished over the years, there are probably an equal number of unfinished stories.

I get an idea. It starts to take form. I begin to work with it. And then — it goes nowhere. Or I find that…