14th July 2016 | for Creatives | writing, storytelling, story endings, Orson Welles |
"If you want a happy ending, that depends, of course, on where you stop your story."
"A story has many threads: character arcs, themes, ideas, plots, and so forth. A good ending ties up most of these. The best ending ties them all up."
"Every great story, regardless of genre, will include a twist. Why? Readers want to be both satisfied and surprised. The more they can decipher exactly where a story is going, the more disappointed they'll be.... Satisfying twists are revelatory in the sense that they add new meaning to all that precedes them."
"Gogol once said that the true, unwritten last line of every story is: 'And nothing was ever the same again.' The same could also be said for the first line of any story: 'And from that moment on, everything was about to change.'"
"We become the stories we listen to, read, and tell. That is the power of a story."
"Your story is an argument—a thesis positing a thematic notion, an idea, a conceit. The ending is where you (purposefully or inadvertently) prove or disprove that thesis."
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