The First Story

• Erin Fawcett, Grade 8
• Short Story
• 2013

See, the reason I can't write anything is because I don't know how to finish anything. I get like a paragraph onto it and don't know what to write next. It's terribly depressing. I love to write but my motivation runs out all the time.

Like this one time I was writing about a girl who wants to sing. I got through one chapter and gave up. I didn't know what to write next. Even this story, I'm struggling to finish this story.

This other time I was writing a fanfic and I finished it but it was on a cliff-hanger, and I had a great ending but I couldn't start the sequel.

Every story I write (well start to) is cause I have a great ending for it!

All this is fiction, of course. But like all fiction lays some truth behind it...