Chapter 40
Endings
Whether your lovers end up happily ever after or torn apart is entirely up to you. At the end of this book I have included a list of my own favorite 100 love story films, and in about 40 percent of them, the lovers are parted by various things. Casablanca has Rick sacrificing his own love for the greater good, as he puts Ilsa on that plane. Gone With the Wind has Rhett Butler walking away with the famous, “Frankly, my dear, I don’t give a damn.”
The meaning of the story, the point of it, is the writer’s domain. And the last word comes at the end. It is important that you recognize the significance of this few hundred words and make them count.
Would Gone With the Wind have been as good a movie and as huge a hit, if Rhett at ...
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