The Hunt for Those Final Story Lines

Ann H GabhartAnn's Posts, One Writer's Journal 4 Comments

  One must be drenched in words, literally soaked in them, to have the right ones form themselves into the proper pattern at the right moment. ~Hart Crane Once more I am searching for the end of a story. Once more it seems to be hiding from me behind a crazy mixture of words that don’t seem to be paving the …

That Last Line before “The End”

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“There is no real ending. It’s just the place where you stop the story.” ~Frank Herbert Frank Herbert was a science fiction writer best known for his books, Dune and its five sequels. So he did keep going with those stories for a good long while.  Here’s another quote along the same line. “A story has no beginning or end: arbitrarily …