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Don't worry about that.

I've had to re-write entire volumes because it didn't get from point A to point B like I wanted it to. You wind up scrapping some, keeping other bits and rearranging. Just keep writing, is all.

No. It will return a lot - but that's why you write when you can. I myself haven't encountered a time when I "cannot" write. That's "block". When there are too many options, too many choices, too many actually-right-for-the-story items... That's when I run into difficulty. But there's nothing wrong with just continuing to write and re-write.

You're young. That's the first thing to know - you're one up on everyone you know that *does not know how to put words to paper* at all. And most people can't. As you write, you'll be able to settle into a style of your own. But "end"? No. As long as you have a muse bothering you, you will write and you'll tear it up and write again. That's what we do.

Not to be morbid or anything, but because it's entirely on the subject, The Suicide Muse is the result of thinking exactly about this.

You might want to do two things:

* Research a little on the subjects or types of things you're writing about - the appropriate eras in history if they exist, how people lived and what they did, etc - once you know how, say, the real world treated children or women in an era, you could then tweak it to your needs in a more fantasy-oriented story world.

* Organize your thoughts on your stories before you start writing. From having read bits of your stories so far, I think you would benefit from having an outline-form and work on pacing a little. If you know who your characters are, think on each of them clearly, and try to put them as the "main" character just to get into their head. Think about their motivations and needs, and then put those things in the context that you've got for your world. Ask each character "why are you doing what you're doing" and "how did you get where you are". Those are things that need to be in mind, and solid, before they can interact.

Anyway... no, no it won't end. There will always likely be a time when you're looking critically at your own work. But eventually depending on what you want to do with your stories, you need to realize that it's got to be set in stone sometime. When to finish something... I haven't quite got there yet with my RPG world, but it's coming. Set a pace for a story, set a goal for length, level of detail, or whether you're going to concentrate on lots of realistic dialog or just hints at descriptions or whatever. Writing exercises really help. I like writing toward an audience for specific things (I do cyberpet dragons, and to earn those a character is created and written about. It must be a short, simple and to the point page or else it'll lose the interest of the artist I'm trying to impress. Too short, and they won't get the point. That's a great way to get quick ideas out on paper, to imagine that each story will earn something specific.)

RANDOMIZE!!!

Isn't that freaking AWESOME?

Language is as language does. It follows rules. Rules can easily be input into computer programs. Words and sentences and all. They mean NOTHING without context: but the human mind is PERFECT for interpreting context out of random crap.

Witness Tarot readings, for one. Meaningless in and of themselves, but when you sit there staring at a layout of certain images and cards, they MEAN something to you because you WANT them to.


..... Of course I wouldn't recommend using a Babel-program to actually WRITE an essay. Though it would be truly freaking awesome. Heck, it worked for Gaiman with Signal to Noise... and that sold ungodly numbers in print...