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Writing Excuses 10.42: How In The World Do I Tie All This Together?

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How to Pick the Right Endings

Howard Kurtz: I don't have the luxury of rewriting schlock mercenary endings after I've written them and put them up on the web. In order to do that, I sit down with my writers group,. And I ask them, what are the questions that I had asked? What are the promises that I have made? You tell me what you've gotten out of this so far. Sometimes they will say things like, well, I'm really expecting this one thing that happened to be a running gag, because that was so satisfying I want to see it again. That is what I am looking for when I'm looking to make sure that I have tied up all of the elements I

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