New pictures, in Seasons (almost a story draft)

[ritaxis]

One of the worst things about short stories is ending the damned things. I know what event, what scene, what emotion this story should end with -- but not the words. Since it's for a workshop, I'm only going to struggle with it for a while longer, and then whatever stupidhead ending I come up with will be what I take to the workshop and just hope that the others can help me cure it.

More pictures of Lighthouse Field today. A red tail hawk, not very clear, and buckwheat.

The plan is to follow certain things throughout the year. I want to get to Arana gulch, the river and the beach before too long.

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[ritaxis.livejournal.com]

I have an ending. I'm struggling with the words. I'm having a hard time getting the sentence structure to do what I want it to do. Beginning a short is easier, I think, than beginning a novel, since in a novel you have much more to set up and you still have the need to develop a fast hook (nobody approves of the leisurely opening any more). Middles are middles, easy or hard as the story makes it: but ending a short is much more difficult than ending a novel, because with a novel you've done so very much that by the time you come to the end, there are only a few different words you could possibly use.