Writing Book 7 · Lesson 15

The End Effect

The end effect is what a piece leaves behind after it is finished.

What you read today

The Writing of Literature, pages 75–78 — the chapter The End Effect.

This lesson's text is the book itself. Your teacher has the pages; read them with the class, then do the work on your sheet.

Remember
Read it as a writer: not only what happens, but what the author did to make it happen that way.
Ask yourself: “What am I left with, and which words put it there?”

Remember

What a reader is left holding is decided by the last line.

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