Good Grief...

To me, it is fairly easily to create realistic characters with words and dialogue.

Plot, more difficult I will admit, but not impossible.

Rising action is always fun to make, and obstacles are more of a guilty pleasure than a trial.

The climax, oh! How it sends shivers down my spine and excitement coursing through my veins! I love creating the climax - it's like driving off a cliff in a damaged Corvette.

But I find that the most difficult parts of creating a story is, in fact, the beginning and the end.

I dread the beginning because there are infinite ways to start. Do I start when the protagonist is born? When he meet her? When she escapes from the prison? Maybe when his grandfather discovered the pocket watch that would start it all?!

Then there's the ending... And it's difficult for a very different reason.

I don't want the story to end.

It's agonizing to leave your creations - to make that final period. I can compare it to empty nest syndrome (after all, I practically guided them through their journey). It feels like I'm abandoning them.

So no, I don't like infinite beginnings, nor do I like the painful endings.

What a writer I am...