“I wish I knew. I care about her, as a character. I want her to go leaping over the fence, but that will break her happy heart. I want her to keep floating in the gentle current of her present life, but her ragged, traveling heart will smolder and burn relentlessly if she does. And so I cannot begin to write, because I cannot stand to start a story I know I cannot finish.
“So what happens in the story?”
“I wish I knew. I care about her, as a character. I want her to go leaping over the fence, but that will break her happy heart. I want her to keep floating in the gentle current of her present life, but her ragged, traveling heart will smolder and burn relentlessly if she does. And so I cannot begin to write, because I cannot stand to start a story I know I cannot finish.
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But we (you) know how it finishes. Right?