Writers Block Challenge
By Daniel Stallings, East Sierra Branch
Writers have often joked about the famous and hoary cliché for an opening line: “It was a dark and stormy night.”
But what if you had to end a story with that famous sentence?
Some writers like to work backwards – plotting the ending of the story first and working back from that to find the best way to reach that conclusion.
How would you craft a story that ends with “It was a dark and stormy night?” How would you ensure that line has impact? See how the story grows!
“Writers Block Challenge” originally ran in
May 2021’s Writers of the Purple Sage,
newsletter of the East Sierra Branch.