Iowa Part ll

Will this day never end?!

I looked forward to the Eleventh Hour lectures every day. I called them the Elevenses because each presentation refreshed me, like an English morning cuppa.

Amber Dermont lectured on endings. She made the point that we must consider the structure—where does my story conclude?—and the existential question—when is my story done and how does it end? Addressing the existential, “writerly” stories wrap up the narrative in a satisfying conclusion for you, but “readerly” stor...