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Saturday, June 28, 2014
Jim Butcher On How To Write A Suspenseful Story Climax
Someone once said to me: The first few pages of a novel sell that novel, the ending of the novel sells the next novel.
I believe that.
Endings are important. If I like a book but hate the ending I probably won't read another book by the same author.
How does one create an exciting, satisfying, ending?
Yesterday, as I worked on the ending for my WIP, I wondered: Is this any good? Is it interesting? Exciting? How can I tell? What makes an ending good? Bad? Indifferent?
So I did what I usually do at times like those, I went to my digital library (also known as the internet) and re-read Jim Butcher's essay . . .
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