#21: How to Craft Your Ideal Story Ending

How do we craft an ending that lands with the reader? How do we avoid what author David Jauss calls "the literary equivalent of a faked orgasm?"

On today's episode of Writer Unleashed, we'll explore 5 ways to avoid an ending that's too tidy, predictable, or lame. 

We'll talk about:

• Interesting character change over time
• Why  a change in your reader is more important than character change
• The relationship between your story's beginning and ending
• Why the strongest endings are not invented but discovered

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