Ficlet: Right Back Where We Started From (Mike/William, FRAO, 600 words)

This is for inlovewithnight's prompt: "Mike/Bill, moving to California." Title from Phantom Planet's "California."

Warnings: Violence, unhappy ending.


( Right Back Where We Started From )

Lessons We Keep Learning

I have now learned the same lesson twice while working on the same story: just because I wrote something down doesn't mean it has to stay that way. I don't know why this is so difficult with this particular story. I know that you can rewrite and rework things. And yet with this particular story, once I write something I seem to think that's the way it has to be. Once I let go of that and just changed the things that needed to be changed, it worked much better.

What lessons, writing or otherwise, do you keep learning?