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Crafting Endings in Short Fiction with Cate Kennedy
Welcome
Introduction
Meet Your Teacher: Cate Kennedy (7:56)
Part One: Getting the Show on the Road
What Do You Owe Your Reader?
The Car, and Getting Them to Stay in it
The Ending is the Destination, But We Also Love the Journey
Writing Exercise 1
Writing Exercise 2
Ideas About Structure
Story is Change
Writing Exercise 3
Creating 'Stakes'
'A Taking-into-account of Everything that Came Before'
Writing Exercise 4
'Plotting' a Course
Writing Exercise 5
The Secret Superpower of Interiority
Writing Exercise 6
Example of Stylistic Decisions and Techniques
Writing Exercise 7
Part Two: Getting to the Big Fork in the Road
Part Two Introduction (2:32)
Problems: Trying to Cram Too Much In
Writing Exercise 8
Solutions
About That Crisis Point
Writing Exercise 9
Why Put Them in the Hot Seat?
Metaphors Be With You
Trust Your Instinct
Part Two Conclusion (3:20)
Part Three: Mechanics and Magic: The Sense of an Ending
Part Three Introduction (6:30)
Stumbling Blocks
Things to Definitely Try
Writing Exercise 10
Closure
Multiple Outcomes
Prepare Your Reader
Keep Writing
Be Bold
Imagery
Go Backwards
Writing Exercise 11
Part Four: Are We There Yet?
Part Four Introduction (5:37)
Tuning the Engine
Writing Exercise 12
Scale, Control and a Tipping Point
Resonant Action as a Potential Ending
The Restoration of Balance
Writing Exercise 13
Writing Exercise 14
Drilling Down Into Technique
Suspended Symbolic Action
Writing Exercise 15
Rhyming Action
Surprise Memory
Writing Exercise 16
Bibliography
Conclusion and Goodbye (6:07)
Feedback
Thank You
Resonant Action as a Potential Ending
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