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Monday was a disaster until I flipped my whole outline upside down
I spent 5 hours planning a heist story for a prompt about a librarian with a gambling debt, and it read like a tax form. Then I started the scene at the ending and worked backwards, which gave me the twist that actually made sense. Has anyone else tried writing the last chapter first just to break a bad draft?
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jordanr421mo ago
Writing the ending first usually kills the tension for me. If I know exactly where it lands, the middle turns into a boring march toward a foregone thing and I lose interest. What works better is writing a few DIFFERENT endings, then picking one and trimming the start so the whole thing leans that way.
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