You can see more of these exercises here.

For some very good reasons, these posts will be shorter and not on schedule!

In the last post, I urged you to write an ending that diverges from the obvious…

The straight, expected path represents your story without any twists, nothing unexpected. The right ending, however, takes the reader off that path to a better, more meaningful ending. It doesn’t have to be a happy ending, but it does have to require the reader to pay attention every step of the way.
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