Assignment
11
Author’s Note: The lesson that covered this assignment was
all about how to write effective beginnings and endings to your stories. An
effective beginning is supposed to draw a reader in, while an effective ending
leaves your readers satisfied. The ending and the beginning weren’t supposed to
be very long, so these are brief.
Grade
Received: A, with a lot of
praise from my instructors and classmates about how intriguing they thought my
beginning was
Beginning
She’d
been keeping secrets for far too long, and now they were coming out. They were
ugly, terrible, horrible secrets—secrets she had been told never to tell under any circumstance—but now that her house
was a crime scene, she had no choice but to tell them. The police would find
out eventually anyway. She cleared her throat, squared her shoulders, and
walked towards the detectives to give her best dramatic performance yet—that of
an innocent woman.
Ending
He
wiped the tears from his eyes as the priest finished taking his final
confession. He felt oddly at peace with the world and his upcoming fate. He
would walk to the gallows with no fear—not of the hangman, not of the crowd,
not of Hell. He had changed immensely since his first day of imprisonment, and
surely God would recognize his present goodness.
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