“Next morning I went over to Paul’s for coffee and told him I had finished. “Good for you,” he said without looking up. “Start the next one today.”

Meaning

This reads as a lesson in discipline, not celebration. It can be taken to mean that finishing one piece of work is only a brief pause, and that momentum matters more than applause or relief. The concrete situation is a writer or creator handing in a draft and being reminded, immediately and plainly, to begin again.

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Originally said in English.

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