Ends

And so, with a bit of sadness, I finished the last Harry Potter novel a couple of days ago. (Yes, I read the bulk of it in one day. I had to see how the novel ended.)

A few weeks earlier, I had sent my newest Quinn McKay manuscript off to a prospective agent. End of long writing process. I won't hear from Quinn until I begin working on another McKay mystery. (Right now I'm working on a new series.)

As writers, we must face ends: the end of a writing process, the end of a character, the end of a story. Often, these ends are painful. I cried after the completion of my first novel, GOTHIC DOO-WOP.

To grow as writers, we must find ends to our works at some point. We can stay with the same manuscript for twenty years.