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meg_evonne:
Jack, so pleased to be of help. I've thought often of your Faith, Hope and Charity.  Enjoy the ride! She sounds like a heck of a character. By the way, I'm writing an ending without a beginning.  I'll let you know how it turns out.

Cyclone Jack:

--- Quote from: meg_evonne on June 17, 2007, 11:40:28 PM ---Jack, so pleased to be of help. I've thought often of your Faith, Hope and Charity.  Enjoy the ride! She sounds like a heck of a character. By the way, I'm writing an ending without a beginning.  I'll let you know how it turns out.

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Please do!

Oh, and if you're curious, I've put the first two sections online:

The Woman Who Hitchiked With Cats (Work In Progress). I'd love to hear your comments. :)

zephyr:
For me it's around page 100.  It's early enough that the end isn't in sight and late enough to question the hundred pages I've already written...I love the last 50 pages. 

Kali:
*watches the thread stagger around* It's alive... It's ALIVE!!!

For what it's worth, the ending is usually a mad, downhill slalom ride for me.  All I can do is hang on, try to keep up with the action, and pray I don't get flung off the toboggan and into a tree.  The middle's the worst, the absolute worst.  Usually by then I've set up my beginning and drawn the story lines, and I probably have some notion of where I'm going to end up, what the big climax is going to be.  I just can't make middles that work.  Heck, you can even see that in the Dresden fic I posted; the middle isn't as good as the beginning or the end.  I hate that people can tell where I began having problems writing, but you can.

Once I skipped the "middle", I started writing again when Grace wakes up screaming in the car and wrote the rest down in one sitting, fingers flying as I tried to keep up with the images in my head.  And I adore writing the final few pages, the epilogue/denoument sort of part that is the written sigh of relaxation after the adrenaline rush.

Middles suck.  Endings rule.

Mickey Finn:
It's the middle for me ;)

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