Theaters are displaying movie posters again. This is a different look for her, dressed in white. You can get an idea of the size of the poster from the field lights above it. The railing for the walkway below is about waist height.
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I don’t know if I’ll see the movie, but this is quite the landmark.
Several years ago, I attended a writers’ workshop by the great Terry Brooks. As an aside, do you know he pronounces Shannara with a short a at the start, instead of an a like in father? It shocked a lot of people. But I digress.
He stressed that every chapter should end with a cliffhanger ending. “No exceptions,” he said. As a young aspiring writer, I thought that sounded cliché. Now that I’m an older aspiring writer, I see the wisdom of it. Which brings me to the manuscript I’m about to send out.
So this is from my War of the Wars reimagined. It you’re reading this from a home computer, you can find links to excerpts in the column on the right, or if you’re reading this from a smartphone, you can scroll down to the tiny words that say “View web version” and see that column. My working title will be Fairy War. Here is the cliffhanger ending for a chapter:
My senses were overwhelmed as I lay there, head lolling on hard wood, and
I could not differentiate between the steam and smoke obscuring my vision when
I blacked out.
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How’d I do?
