Tip #188: The Denouement

The strategic purpose of a denouement is to reorient the characters towards the next phase of their lives.

We don’t need to be told just what that new, better future is... When the plot is done, suddenly the doors of possibility are thrown wide open. The characters might now choose anything. They might do anything... You had your turn. Now it’s our turn, but only if you allow us to imagine what the characters might do next. If you imagine it for us, we can’t.

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