{"id":2648,"date":"2021-12-20T21:27:38","date_gmt":"2021-12-21T03:27:38","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blog.timelypersuasion.com\/blog\/?p=2648"},"modified":"2021-12-20T21:27:38","modified_gmt":"2021-12-21T03:27:38","slug":"lx-commentary-26-baby-its-your-life","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.timelypersuasion.com\/blog\/lx-commentary-26-baby-its-your-life\/","title":{"rendered":"LX Commentary #26: Baby, It’s Your Life!"},"content":{"rendered":"\r\n

Endings are tough. You need to tie up as many dangling threads as possible, leave the reader satisfied that reading the book was worthwhile, and try to go out on a memorable high note without it feeling abrupt or forced.

That’s something I wrote a dozen years ago in the commentary post<\/a> for the final (pre-epilogue) chapter of Timely Persuasion<\/em><\/a>. It still applies to L Extreme<\/em><\/a>, perhaps even more so for this type of book. I wanted to wrap things up without completely spelling it out so the reader had room to figure it out for themselves. And on top of that I had to work in references to the closing song, adding another layer of complexity.

Though I wrote much of L Extreme<\/em> out of order in the first draft, I intentionally left the last song as the last song. I also procrastinated for several days, perhaps subconsciously not wanting this project to end. One day I finally decided enough was enough. I put “Baby, It’s Your Life!” on repeat and declared I wasn’t doing anything else until it was done. I wrote 4 separate endings back to back. 2.5 of them were later merged to become the grand finale.

Sometimes you just need to appreciate the last song for what it is.<\/p>\r\n

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