The Gentle Art of Finishing

About this book

Nobody teaches finishing. We are taught beginnings, praised for beginnings, sold beginnings by the shelfful, and then left alone in the last ten percent of everything, which is exactly where most dreams quietly sit down. June Marlowe thinks the last ten percent has been misunderstood. It is not laziness that stops us there, and it is not weakness. Stopping is usually self protection: an unfinished thing is full of promise, and a finished thing can be judged. So we hover, endlessly, in the safe almost. The Gentle Art of Finishing is a warm, practical field guide to the far end of projects. In ten short chapters, with five fictional companions whose shelves of almosts may strongly resemble your own, it offers a lighter way to walk the last ten percent.