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How Do You Create Surprise When Your Story’s Ending Is Inevitable?

Literary Hub 22 June 2026 13h ago
How Do You Create Surprise When Your Story’s Ending Is Inevitable?
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It’s a fairly conventional belief in fiction writing that the strongest structure of a short story is one in which a character changes over the course of that story. But what to do if you have a character or community
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