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Advice on Essay Endings:

1. Repeat a phrase or idea that was introduced earlier, like the return of a musical refrain; Often the initial setup or opening sentence will forecast the ending.
2. Tweak or transform an earlier mentioned idea into something new, perhaps with a different spin.
3. Introduce a new insight helped in reserve just for the occasion of the ending.
4. “Readers should be left with some things to work out on their own.”

“Creative nonfiction allows the nonfiction writer to use literary techniques usually used only by fiction writers, such as scene-setting, description, dialogue, action, suspense, plot. All those things that make terrific short stories and novels allow the nonfiction writer to tell true stories in the most cinematic and dramatic way possible. That’s creative nonfiction.” — Lee Gutkind

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