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When stories grow beyond their natural boundaries

I have been working on this short story for six months and it started as eight pages and now it is thirty-seven pages and I think I am afraid to finish it

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More people experience this than they realize.

What we've seen

The expansion of scope often masks a reluctance to confront the finality that completion demands.

Ideas that help explain it
Worth thinking about

“Where Are You with Fiction and storytelling — craft fundamentals?”

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