If you listened to the podcast yesterday, you might have noticed that I seem to be having a midlife crisis about writing advice and writers—the literary elite kind.
It’s honestly probably just a midweek crisis because Wednesdays can be a lot and I had some vaccines yesterday and I get fevers when I have vaccines because that’s just how my immune system plays. Even getting the vaccines was an event in social awkwardness.
Anyway, I might be having a midlife/midweek writing advice crisis, which is weird for someone who edits and coaches and teaches writers for a good part of her living, right?
This mid-crisis of mine made me think about endings, which don’t get enough attention, I don’t think because everyone is so super focused on beginnings and getting an agent to notice them. Beginnings are sexy. Beginnings are full of promise and hope. Good beginnings are blind dates gone well. Beginnings get all the attention like shiny Instagram and TikTok influencers, but they are only one tiny bit of the big picture.
Life is about more than beginnings and so are stories.
Every single part of your story has a beginning, middle, and end. Each word. Each sentence. Each paragraph. Each scene. How weird is that when you think about it?
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