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"The Chopped Ending"
November 27, 2021

This is something I've been running into a couple of times lately when reading short stories. You get to the end and it just… chops off. Literally, at the bottom of a page, there is no story left. Turn the page, and the next story begins. It left me irritated and confused. Where's the rest of it??

This happened three or four times in an anthology I'm currently reading. The first instance, I wondered if it was a glitch of some kind. Maybe they rushed through the proofing process and didn't realize pages had been dropped...

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Drakanox: Sat down to write an outline that fits my 3 POV characters in some sort of sequence. Who should come along but POV #4?

Drakanox: I got some good writing time in earlier. The bad gal is wildly out-numbered, but she knows her enemies are pacifists who won't attack first. Rather than slink away, she struts on in with a great big grin and teases them mercilessly.

Writing sometimes is like coming up to the plate, swinging at the ball, feeling the impact, knowing you hit it out of the park... While the stands are empty.

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