Ben Yagoda samples 11 prominent writers in a Nieman Storyboard post about ending a long story: "With each word, sentence, and paragraph, the world of possibilities is constricted, until you find yourself with one more bit to write. Even if you haven’t painted yourself into an uncomfortable corner, you have to steer between being too obvious and too enigmatic. At the same time you feel you need to leave readers with something that will move them and stick with them."
July 13, 2014