Hi, friends. The other day someone posed this question: must you know the ending of the story when you begin writing it? If you have read this newsletter for a bit, or know me in real life, you know that I am a pantser. I want to plan things, honestly, I do. And yet. (I just put ice cream in my breakfast granola because someone, ahem, did not go to the store to buy yogurt yesterday. Also, can now recommend this substitution.) There are very few instances where a story comes to me fully formed before I put pencil to paper. I write as discovery and don’t really know my characters until they reveal themselves to me.
On Endings
On Endings
On Endings
Hi, friends. The other day someone posed this question: must you know the ending of the story when you begin writing it? If you have read this newsletter for a bit, or know me in real life, you know that I am a pantser. I want to plan things, honestly, I do. And yet. (I just put ice cream in my breakfast granola because someone, ahem, did not go to the store to buy yogurt yesterday. Also, can now recommend this substitution.) There are very few instances where a story comes to me fully formed before I put pencil to paper. I write as discovery and don’t really know my characters until they reveal themselves to me.