A good story
May very well be
A plot that concludes
However
I've always thought
The most intriguing
Are the ones
Left unanswered
There is a story
That lies in a notebook
On my shelf
Collecting dust
It's only one paragraph long
An undeveloped idea
But an idea nonetheless
It was co-written
By an undiscovered writer
And my ill-equipped self
We wrote an intriguing paragraph
Until
I was hit with writers block
I moved on
Carelessly
To other works
Long novels
Short stories
But still
Nothing more intriguing
Than our one
Brief
Idea
Most days I regret giving up
When I left behind this unfinished thought
And I still wonder
What the story could have been
If it ever continued
From paragraph one
Who knows
Maybe
It’d be a new story all together
All I know
Is that I will most likely never have an answer
But if that paragraph has taught me one thing
It is to develop ideas
Craft paragraphs
And finish stories
Before you put them on the shelf
Oct 2, 2017
Oct 2, 2017 at 4:30 PM UTC
A good story
May very well be
A plot that concludes
However
I've always thought
The most intriguing
Are the ones
Left unanswered
There is a story
That lies in a notebook
On my shelf
Collecting dust
It's only one paragraph long
An undeveloped idea
But an idea nonetheless
It was co-written
By an undiscovered writer
And my ill-equipped self
We wrote an intriguing paragraph
Until
I was hit with writers block
I moved on
Carelessly
To other works
Long novels
Short stories
But still
Nothing more intriguing
Than our one
Brief
Idea
Most days I regret giving up
When I left behind this unfinished thought
And I still wonder
What the story could have been
If it ever continued
From paragraph one
Who knows
Maybe
It’d be a new story all together
All I know
Is that I will most likely never have an answer
But if that paragraph has taught me one thing
It is to develop ideas
Craft paragraphs
And finish stories
Before you put them on the shelf
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