Just finished a short story I started three years ago in a Chicago coffee shop

I found the old notebook in a box last week. The first page was dated and had a coffee stain from that spot near the window. I wrote one new page each morning before work this month, and today I typed the final sentence. It feels good to close a loop I started so long ago. What's the oldest unfinished idea you've gone back to?

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anderson.jason15d ago

Found an old folder of song lyrics from high school last year. They were pretty bad, but one chorus had a decent melody stuck in my head. I rewrote the verses about my current life instead of teenage drama. Finished it and recorded a rough version on my phone, which felt way better than letting it rot in a drawer. Sometimes the old stuff just needed to sit until you had new things to say.

keithbennett15d agoMost Upvoted

My 2008 notebook still has some salvageable bits.