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Now, the big climactic moment often happens two-thirds of the way through the story, not on the last page, and the story's moral or lack thereof must be deduced by the reader. To apply this to your own work, play with perspective - try stepping out of the confines of the story and looking at what might happen as a result if you pull back, or change the POV to an omniscient narrator. The unpleasant POV character is shot dead about two-thirds of the way through the story, and the story pivots to an omniscient narrator. Kirstin Valdez Quade's remarkable story "Nemecia" describes the narrator's cousin's shattered doll on the first page. [Extracted from the article] |
