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How to End Your Book--What Not to Wrap Up

How to End Your Book--What Not to Wrap Up

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Mary Carroll Moore
Feb 04, 2019
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As a journalist for several decades, I was taught well by my editors how to wrap up an article, interview, or column.  Leave the reader with resolution but come to a definite conclusion. 

When I began writing books, I learned a different approach, which is especially common in memoir and fiction these days:  create an ending that hovers.  

In other words,…

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