
Writing Excuses Season 2 Episode 29: How not to end your book
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The Third Act Hollywood Wimpap
I was reading a Robert Reed book years ago. And I'm going to tell you how it ends. They were a squirting... It's a squirting spoiler warning. Another place where you can see this happening all the time is with the big action set piece. Where somebody says, if it's a fantasy book they want it to end with a great big battle or a sword fight. In science fiction they want a space battle. If it's modern then they want a car chase or they want a gun fight. That's a very fun climactic way to end a book but character usually gets lost when you do that unless you're very careful. Fugs me in movies too.
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