Completing a Book: What Comes After You Reach the End

Reflections on the aftermath of completing a book. The rewards of writing, feeling lost at the end, and the key to unlocking the flow of new ideas.

Photo by Ian Fishburn

Reading the words cedar tree at the top of a blank page is a comfort to me. I know I wrote them down staring blankly out the window at the very tree that grows below the window where I write. It’s boughs like lace tittering in…