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Fill Your Pockets With Endings

Fill Your Pockets With Endings

Update: 2025-08-26
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NPR's Robert Smith says when he's writing and gets to the end of a story he has empty pockets. He's used all the good stuff and left nothing for the end. To combat that problem, Robert studied endings from some of his favorite reporters and put together a list of categories that broadly describe memorable story endings.


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Fill Your Pockets With Endings

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