Sometimes writing feels like running a marathon. You write, write, write, lather, rinse, and repeat. You develop your plot, you explore characters, you get in your 1000 words or x-number of pages per day, and the end feels so very far away. In fact, it feels like you might never reach it. My current WIP…
Endings
Quote of The Week: John Gardner (on Endings)
“A novel is like a symphony in that its closing movement echoes and resounds with all that has gone before. Toward the close of a novel, the writer brings back — directly or in the form of his characters recollections — images, characters, events, and intellectual motifs encountered earlier. Unexpected connections begin to surface; hidden…