Writing Excuses 10.40: What’s the Difference Between Ending and Stopping?
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The Epilogue: A Tool to Change Pace
With a short story, I tried to stop at the moment where the character has the possibility of making a change and knows it. With a novel, if I'm to put any kind of generalities on it, it's usually the first time they try to do the thing differently. This also brings up one of the useful tools that a lot of writers, I had never used, but it's the epilogue. The word epilogue says, this is something that I am appending. So it gives you an opportunity to change pace. Let's go ahead and stop for our book of the week. And we're actually going to hear a book about a book that NOL
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