![]() Echoes in my ear, sounds coming out of the air. ![]() ![]() No point in standing here listening to the noises in the tent-but before I could leave, someone called me. It got darker, though, and the blue tent faded into the night. I sighed, but stood there, watching even though there was nothing to see. Was the blue tent moving, or was it only the fire playing on the smooth hide? A long, slender arm suddenly shot out and pulled the hide fully across the entrance. I passed quietly behind the Chieftains’ Tent and paused to look round the edge, down the hill. So I was looking for a “jacks” ending to a brief scene, and found this one. But there is another kind, that I call “jacks”-in which you scatter a number of small, shiny objects around and cause the reader to want to pick them up. ![]() Basically (I think), that kind of temporary ending is usually either a cliff-hanger type (even a tiny cliff-hanger will do), or a “resting” ending-where Things have been Happening, and you want everyone to be able to stop for a moment and breathe. (The subject was Endings that make the reader want to go on to the next chapter. Just for fun-rooted this brief excerpt out to illustrate a discussion amongst writers about endings, and I thought y’all might enjoy it. ![]()
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