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What realities are you currently ignoring in your work? I'm currently ignoring a deadline, but that's just normal for most writers.

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What unrealistic things in movies bug you a lot? They remove the headrests in cars so the actors can be better seen.
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I laugh because my WIP has a classic set up for a tense, dramatic conclusion and after months of working toward it, I still have no idea what that dramatic conclusion is. Instead I have a long list of discarded less than dramatic conclusions. I'm a plotter and it drives me nuts to know that unless I have an eureka moment I'll be pantsing the ending!
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@alan Take an hour and write ten different outlines for the ending. Speedwrite. Don't think. Five minutes max on each. That will at least give you the negative space around the ending, if not the ending itself.
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It's complicated and there's not much room to manoeuvre. I have two non-cooperating groups of cops and my protagonists all descending on my antagonist at the same time. He's trapped. His empire has been laid in ruin.

Ending 1: surrender. Rating: OMG WTF? No.

Ending 2: suicide / suicide by cop. Rating: Meh.

Ending 3: Cops argue, antagonist escapes. Rating: Oh goodie, now it's a fucking series. Kill me now.

Ending 4: escape, but thwarted by unexpected, possibly humorous circumstances. Rating: Best of a bad bunch.

Ending 5 will be brilliant though. ๐Ÿ˜‚

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@Alan Langford ๐Ÿ‡จ๐Ÿ‡ฆ๐Ÿงค๐ŸงŠๆ‘ @Dave Dawkins (D. Harrigon)
You might well consider Alfred Hitchcocky twisty endings. He was very good at that...rather, choosing writers whose stories provided such a thing...which is why I sit through the closing credits of Hitchcock Presents because therein lies a reading list. To whet your appetite in this direction, I now point the way to Hitchcock's magazine as well as to that of Ellery Queen for inspo.
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@Dave Dawkins (D. Harrigon) @Alan Langford ๐Ÿ‡จ๐Ÿ‡ฆ๐Ÿงค๐ŸงŠๆ‘ In reality if you have the gift, before it time will slow down and you'll notice silence around you drop out, there is not about 5 full minutes but a matter of seconds > or it is done. Smile.
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