I am still working on my quick, loose, first draft of Story #2, and I have gotten to a certain point, but now I am starting to think about the end, think about how the different elements in the story will come together, how I will make it to the end. (Yes, I mentioned the end twice in that sentence, because, yes, I am worried about the end.)
This is the anticipation, the anxiety, I was hoping to avoid by doing the quick, loose, first draft.
I have to focus on what I am writing now, where I am in the story now, and keep moving forward, and write the end when I get to the end.
("Moving forward" makes me think of my workplace. That's how they talk there.)
Another observation: every story I write becomes the hardest story I ever wrote. So I thought Story #1 was the hardest story I ever wrote and ever would write when I was writing it, but now that I am writing Story #2, it is BY FAR the hardest story I have ever written and will ever write.
One more thought: a psychic once told me that I was working on a story, or I would work on a story that should actually be split into two stories. Perhaps Story #2 is that story.
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