Writing is always about decisions. To take anything forward, you have to decide one way or another. There's never a middle road. And if there is, it only seems like one for a while until you realise it's one of the forks.
I usually shy way from the decisions, to be honest. Perhaps that's why I struggle to finish things. Come up against even a relatively simple decision like "does this character like or dislike that person" and I run away. I'm learning, slowly but surely, to blast through the walls, even to ignore the need for a decision if I have to and just KEEP WRITING. As Hemingway once said, "the first draft of anything is shit" and you don't have anything to de-shit if there's nowt on t' page.
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