Week 11 Session: The three-endings workshop

Writing three 50-word endings — good, bad and true — for your original boss's world, in item-description style

10 May 2027

Before the session#

Bring the boss and world you’ve been building since Week 2. If you’ve changed direction since then, bring whatever original setting you’re using for the Final Project.

In the session#

Write three 50-word endings for that world, in the same unreliable- testimony voice as your Week 2 item descriptions: a “good” one, a “bad” one, and a “true” one that isn’t just a midpoint between the other two. None should announce its own category — a reader should have to infer which is which from tone and consequence alone, the way weak guidance argues an NPC should never announce a destination outright.

We trade endings in the room; if a reader can immediately sort your three into good/bad/true without hesitation, the ambiguity hasn’t been earned yet.

Afterwards#

Keep the true ending in particular — it’s a strong candidate for the Final Project’s opening script to gesture toward, even briefly.