• Diphthongization of a vowel before a consonant group
• unfinished work broken off,
  possible reasons being:
  • death
    • by drowning,
    • by suicide,
    • overindulgence
  • loss of
    • the manuscript,
    • the will,
    • the talent,
    • the inspiration (whatever that is)
  • [feeble excuses:
    • a man from Porlock,
    • the intrusion
      of domestic matters]
  • divine revelation (being smited with sniffles)
  • something better coming along
  • winning the lottery
  • somebody laughing (an ego that's easily broken)