Elements of the Writing Craft. Part One: Storytelling, Lesson Twenty-six: Ending Quitely.
Ref: Pages 33 and 34 of the text by Robert Olmstead.
- Create five moments where you wish the narration to become poised.
So we kept watch through the night.
And he walked on down the hall.
He drained his mug and thumped it down onto the table.
And she rode off into the sunset.
And I thought to myself. - Choose one of your sentences and complete the paragraph.
So we kept watch through the night, my hounds and I. Huddled between the roots of the hawthorn. The pinecone fire burned down to glowing coals and the forest skittered awake. Dew collected on rocks and shrubs across the field and scattered the first rays of light that broke the horizon. - Follow your paragraph in exercise two with three statements you character makes and allow him the three sentences necessary to reaffirm these statements.
So we kept watch through the night, my hounds and I. Huddled between the roots of the hawthorn. The pinecone fire burned down to glowing coals, and the forest skittered awake. Dew collected on rocks and shrubs across the field and scattered the first rays of light that broke the horizon.
We marched all day and night for a week, and still one more day to go. As the sun rose fully into the sky, I knew I should get moving. But we sat there that morning, my hounds and I. We watched the sunrise, and we didn’t hurry that day. We took our leisure with the last stretch, and it felt good to savor the last mile before turning down Hazel and crossing through the south gate of town and back home again.