"You might ask yourself why you want to surprise your readers in the first place. A surprise ending is sort of like a surprise party. Probably some people, somewhere, enjoy having friends and trusted colleagues lunge at them in the sudden blinding light of their own living room, but I don't think most of us do."

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Source : Jincy Willett (2009). “The Writing Class”, p.75, Macmillan

Jincy Willett

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