Comments on: Writing your story

By: Jennifer @ GDWJ

Jennifer @ GDWJ — Mon, 15 Mar 2010 02:55:14 +0000

ON ENDINGS …

When I write news stories, I always write the ending first. I can’t write the lead, until I know the ending. It goes against everything I learned in J-school but it’s the only way I can make sense of a news story that I’m writing.

Interestingly enough, when I write a blog post, I never, ever, EVER know how it’s supposed to end … until I reach the end.

My brain works weird like that. How ’bout you? Did you know how Snow Day would end before you wrote it? How ’bout your blog posts?

By: Susan

Susan — Sun, 14 Mar 2010 23:39:57 +0000

I’m thinking I’m glad I know the Dragon Slayer and the Author of my story … and that it does have a happy ending indeed …

By: SpringsInTheDesert

SpringsInTheDesert — Fri, 12 Mar 2010 23:41:38 +0000

nice post…we all live for that happy ending…And I believe that it all depends on how we write the story…

By: L.T. Elliot

L.T. Elliot — Fri, 12 Mar 2010 22:43:20 +0000

I’m still a fairy-tale-dreamer, myself. One of my favorite songs says,

“We are words
on pages that we’ve left unturned
an ending no one’s ever heard
We are a story, slowly unfolding
Beautiful words.”

It’s called “Beautiful words” by The Afters. I like the idea of being a story, slowly unfolding.

By: Joanne Sher

Joanne Sher — Fri, 12 Mar 2010 21:16:45 +0000

It has been WAY too long since I’ve read your blog (or anyone else’s for that matter). I’ve been too busy writing my story (in your sense as well as the traditional sense ) to read. I am SO glad I let twitter tempt me to stop by.

Such an incredible reminder – and one I needed more than you can possibly imagine today.

By: jasonS

jasonS — Fri, 12 Mar 2010 20:54:27 +0000

Great post, Billy.

By: Chris Sullivan

Chris Sullivan — Fri, 12 Mar 2010 19:10:34 +0000

I remember being like that as a kid. I never wanted the story to end. I wanted to know what happened next. A little piece of it might even be that we become attached to the characters in these stories and their stories ending is a lot like losing someone we have grown close to.

By: Bridget

Bridget — Fri, 12 Mar 2010 17:30:48 +0000

Me too! What a sad existence if we didn’t have the hope of a “Happily Ever After!”

By: Brock Henning

Brock Henning — Fri, 12 Mar 2010 17:03:22 +0000

Billy, great post. Reminded me to jump back into bedtime reading with our three children. We had started scampering through The Wind in the Willows with Ratty, Mole, Badger, and Mr. Toad, then we allowed the busyness of the past few months to snuff out our nightly adventures.

There’s something of a star-twinkling quality to acting out the characters voices, watching my kids’ eyes fixed on a point in the room, completely lost to the real world and alive in a dream world. Something deep inside all of us knows we are destined for a fairy-tale ending.

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