Forum / Thought for the week:

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    Ramon Collins
    Jul 26, 04:48pm

    "There is no real ending. It’s just the place where you stop the story." — Frank Herbert (DUNE)

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    Linda Simoni-Wastila
    Jul 26, 05:00pm

    Four thumbs up!

    So true, though. Characters and stories live indefinitely in our imaginations. Peace...

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    Susan Tepper
    Jul 26, 08:18pm

    Cool. Years ago a New Yorker editor told me that that magazine had a practice of chopping the endings off most stories they published. I don't know if that is still the case at The New Yorker. They never published anything of mine. But I found that idea conceptually interesting

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    Darryl Price
    Jul 27, 08:10am

    How was it that Auden framed this very thing? Something like,"a poem is never finished--only abandoned."

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    Ramon Collins
    Jul 27, 04:04pm

    I took an online fiction class where we spent eight weeks studying where stories started and stopped (and why). Never forgot the instructor's sage advice: "Always stop writing when the story is told."

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