"Finishing a book is just like you took a child out in the back yard and shot it."

I chose this quote because it is funny and true.

I have experienced this same feeling when I finiish writing short stories or poems. When you start writing, you usually feel a wave of inspiration: You want to express something and you want a whole imaginary world to be part of that message, to highlight it.

Then, while developing the text, you feel that finally what was in your mind is on paper. At last, your message is being kept in a safe and tangible place. In this moment, you could compare the sensation with that of playing with a young child or teaching him something (if you like to teach little kids).

When you are reaching the end of the story, you usually feel satisfied, but when you finally get to know the characters, when you are really immersed into the story's plot and when you have taken that kind of writting as a habit, something happens: You realize that the story has to come to an end. There are no better words to desribe that "murder" of the story than the ones Capote uses.

When you are having fun, you realize that you have already arrived to the ending line. At the end, the whole process must come to an End. Just like that.