Five strategies to finish what you start

How many false starts do you have sitting in your drawer? Novels, short stories, screenplays? We all begin filled with passion, but somewhere along the way, the fire inside us burns out, or another project seems more enticing. We put our current work away to chase the next best thing. And the cycle of incompletion begins, and our false starts pile up. Here are five strategies that have worked for me on a story.