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Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data

Kress, Nancy.
Beginnings, middles and ends / by Nancy Kress.—1st ed.
p. cm.
Includes index.
ISBN 0-89879-550-8
1. Fiction—Technique. I. Title.
PN3355.K73 1993
808.3-dc20 92-29822
CIP

Edited by Jack Heffron
 For Miriam,
Nick, Mark, and
all the other writers
I've been privileged to work with
as students
"A writer's problem does not change. He himself changes and
the world he lives in changes but his problem remains the same.
It is always how to write truly and having found what is true, to
project it in such a way that it becomes part of the experience of
the person who reads it."

—Ernest Hemingway
 CONTENTS


Introduction:
The Story in Your Head • 1
PART I: BEGINNINGS • 5
1. The Very Beginning: Your Opening Scene • 6
2. The Later Beginning: Your Second
Scene • 32
3. Help for Beginnings: Early Revision • 52
PART II: MIDDLES • 59
4. The Middle: Staying on Track • 60
5. Under Development: Your Characters at
Midstory • 80
6. Help for Middles: Getting Unstuck • 92
PART III: ENDINGS • 103
7. Satisfying Endings: Delivering on the
Promise • 104
8. The Very End: Last Scene, Last Paragraph,
Last Sentence • 120
9. Help for Endings: The Last Hurrah • 132
 INTRODUCTION

THE STORY
IN YOUR HEAD