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Month: February 2025

Writing Beginnings and Endings

Writing Beginnings and Endings

How do you start a story?  How do you end a story?  These can be extremely vexing questions for any writer.  But one thing anyone can remember when you hit this wall is that you were actually taught the best way to begin and end nearly any piece of writing in Middle School.  Remember? Tell them what you’re going to tell them.  Tell them.  Then tell them what you told them. That, of course, sounds super-pedantic and boring, which is…

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fly-by-posting: 2025/02/03 (w/pic)

fly-by-posting: 2025/02/03 (w/pic)

Sometimes ice canyons on the side of the street are kinda cool looking. But, I have to say, they’re super extra cool looking when you’ve had a healthy dose of geology and/or planetary-science classes, and so are imagining you’re staring down at something like a diorama of another planet. (Go planetary science!)