I have finally finished a story I’ve been working on for some time, it was inspired by an H P Lovecraft (lots of information here http://www.hplovecraft.com/ ) story and set in the uphill part of Lincoln, an area steeped in history and well worth a visit, (again, more information here; http://www.visitlincoln.com/ ).

My fingers are firmly crossed for the story and how it fares. It is always a strange feeling when you stop editing a story and ‘let it go’. After weeks, in the case of a novel months or years, of working on a project, thinking about it frequently, if not constantly, you send it off and it either lives or dies. Whichever way it goes it is out of the writer’s control, the story, article, novel takes on a life of its own. The alternative is to keep on editing, to carry on looking for little improvements or to banish it to the bottom drawer of the filing cabinet, or the electronic equivalent, and never let it see the light of day. That seems too harsh an end for a piece of writing, the writer will never know how if it would  have been successful or not.

And now, onto the next project …