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Writing Excuses Season 2 Episode 29: How not to end your book

Writing Excuses

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How to Not Write a Bad Ending

"I used to be horrible at endings and after writing terrible endings and rewriting them about a hundred times I think I'm fairly good at them now because it's something I had to force myself to work on," he says. "My early bad endings happen because of foreshadowing laziness, which means the ending itself would have been great if it would have had all the things that needed to back it up" He adds: "Don't write an ending that has to be published and kept public for everybody to read even though it sucks."

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