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Daytime Talk Series: The End

Tuesday, March 8, 2016 - 10:00 AM | For Members Only | Whitridge Room | Free of charge; registration required

Writing the novel/short story/essay is the easy part. Knowing when to stop is where the trouble begins. End at a dramatic moment? A resolution moment? A foreshadowing-the-future moment? An everything’s-going-to-be-okay moment? Or just toss in the towel when you’ve exhausted yourself or your characters?

Two writers, with dozens of books and articles and even more years of editing between them, interview each other about how to recognize the finish line when you come to it, and what to do when you get there.

Lorrie Bodger, author of more than thirty books, teaches writers, does private editing, has written a blog called “The Book Under Her Bed,” and has arrived at the end of her novel. Again.

Betsy Carter has published one memoir and three novels. She has just completed her fourth. Before that, she was a magazine editor and writer at Newsweek, Esquire, and Harper’s Bazaar, and founding editor and editor-in-chief of New York Woman.

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The Writing Life events in 2016 are generously underwritten by Jenny Lawrence.