There is always a risk in any artistic endeavour to never finish. The hurdles never stop coming… it is hard to start writing a story, it’s hard to continue writing a story, and it’s particularly hard to finish writing a story.

That final hurdle looks like one issue, but it’s really a few dozen issues all crammed together in a trench coat. Adding one more line here, removing a few more words there, tweaking the layout, modifying the chapter headings, revising the introduction to cut unnecessary stuff, fluffing out the end to make sure the ending is satisfying… the inclination to polish the product until it gleams is powerful.

But at some point you do have to finish. Or at least I do, I know plenty of people who don’t, but they’re not writers or artists. At some point you have to push the baby bird out of the nest, and whether it flies or not, you gotta start working on the next clutch of eggs.

I say all this because the audio story podcast I’m working on is within spitting distance of being ready for release, and I’m currently mired in the desire to polish it more. To add more stuff, to change the audio levels, to work on it until it is as close to perfect as I can make it… but the reality is at this point I’m just adding polish to the polish. It’s almost ready, and soon I’m going to push it out into the world and hope people like it.

Hope everyone out there is staying safe and healthy!