19:56:03selwyni am reminded of the short story 'clockwork' by philip pullman in which a storyteller is unable to finish a story.. with unfortunate consequences :
20:15:13ShinmeraUh, how am I supposed to articulate that?
21:39:42Gnuxie[m]i assumed (probably wrongly) that people made the endings first
21:40:04ShinmeraI suppose it works to build a connection by saying "the story starts like this and the end goal is this."
21:40:14Shinmeraand then you build the stuff up towards the ending.
21:41:07ShinmeraAll I know personally is that I've always failed at building proper tension and resolving it well. I can set a tone and mood, I can get the start of a story going, but after that I flounder about and don't know wtf.