My mom said something interesting the other day.

[kate]

My older sister has a friend, DR, whose mother died a while ago. She was a pack rat. and he is slowly going through all her stuff, selling, donating, and trashing. One of the things he found was several boxes of knitting and crocheting projects that were 80-99% done. Some just needed ends tucked in, some needed a few rows done, some needed sections sewn together. She's been finishing them all up. She said, "I love doing this - just finishing up someone else's stuff, it's like getting a whole afghan done for the price of tying in a few ends."

And I thought, you know what? I've got easily half a dozen stories that need just that little push to the end that I can't seem to finish. And I love to finish things too - if there were stories like mine, needing just a little bit at the end, I'd be happy to finish those up for someone else.

Maybe I should do something like this on prospectus. Anybody feel like they might be willing to try their hand at this?

Comments

[cesare]

It's hard for me to imagine how that would work in a writing context, but it sounds interesting; I guess I'd be willing to give it a try! I definitely have the raw materials for it...

[kate]

See, me too! And I think I have enough of a laidback approach that I'd be okay with someone else just taking it and running with it. I don't know that everyone has that sort of disposition. It could be tricky.

Maybe there needs to be a comm for all sorts of unfinished projects. Then again, prospectus is really made for stuff like this... I just don't know!