lunabee34

Oh, and another big reason for waiting until I'm done: I feel very differently about stories once they've been posted.

When I'm polishing things up, I can see all the flaws and I accept things not quite hitting all the notes I want. Posting always feels like a compromise. But once I've received and replied to feedback, and it's been up a little while, I forget the stuff I'd been failing to get in and I feel good about what is actually there.

So if I've got the early parts of a story up, then I've set myself an impossible ideal for how I should feel about the later parts before I can post them. It's a set-up for performance anxiety, and I can polish and tidy in that frame of mind, but I can't create story.

If I didn't have the end of New York written, there's no way I'd be able to write it now, with expectations looming.

S.