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One of the things that bothers us about conversations around endings is the assumption that writers owe readers the outcome they’ve been rooting for.

We don’t.

We owe them an ending that’s honest to the story we actually wrote,

One of the craft conversations we’ve been having this week is about tension: specifically, the idea that tension doesn’t always need to begin with enormous action or explain itself immediately.

Sometimes the first job is simply making t

Megan and I both write modern stories, and we think contemporary writers do many things exceptionally well. Pacing is stronger. Dialogue sounds like real human beings instead of characters politely waiting for their turn to speak.

And writers have

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