Welcome back. This is strategy four, technique two. And this is in paragraphs and technique to states. And this is about conclusions or endings. We were just talking about intros. So conclusions usually circle back to the intro in some way.

The intro will introduce a concept, a question, an idea, an anecdote, a story, or something that leaves a question for the reader and it goes full circle through the entire work, it covers all the details and all the events and then it comes back in some way and answers back to the intro without being repetitive but it comes back full circle, but here's technique to the perfect ending should take your readers by surprise, yet seen exactly right. And that's William's answer. And that's what he says about conclusions. A conclusion may be one paragraph. In some cases, it may be one sentence and in maybe more Multiple paragraphs depending on the length of your work and the genre, the explanation closing should end with an appropriate story, example scene, anecdote, call to action, etc, depending on the situation that brings ideas full circle, perhaps with an echo of the beginning.

And so an example here that works well. We get an echo of the beginning. Let's think back to the ones you might even want to look at that video again, or look at the slideshow again, from the last technique where we talked about Darrius Johnson. And then we went through the examples of intros in the Bible, Lolita, and Seabiscuit. And so we're going to continue by looking at the conclusions that answer back to these in the same works. And this is the one about Darrius Johnson on the Casino Royale route.

And so this is a potential conclusion or closing statement that answers back to that beginning stage. Dairy is this mother stood by the car, her eyes bearing into his she put her hands on his shoulders, wishing she didn't have to let go. And so that answers back. We may not know what happened in the middle, but we get a sense that it does answer back there. And then other examples, here are the endings of the same works from technique two. They give a hint of the beginning and seem to end just right.

So they do those two things. They give a hint at the beginning of the end, just write a little mysteriously, but it still works. I am the Alpha and the Omega, the first and the last, the beginning and the end the Bible. And so it started in the beginning God created the heavens in the earth and so it seems appropriate that it emphasizes the creator again here at the end in the Bible. And then here is one from the Lolita novel Vladimir Nabokov. I am thinking of arcs.

In angels, the secret of durable pigments, prophetic science, the refuge of art, and this is the only immortality you and I may share my Lolita. So that's about Forbidden Love, and if that's what you want to call it, but it's it's emphasizing what was at the beginning some kind of forbidden passion or lust or love depending on how you want to look at it. And then the last one was from Seabiscuit and we get a sense of one character at the beginning, and there's a mood there of aggression and optimism. And then at the end, there's this quietness and that's kind of the tone the book takes throughout the piece and it ends with a different character, but it kind of answers back to the mood and the tone in the intro. The air carried a harsh sound of stirring straw, and the horses shook the sleep from their bodies in the darkness.

They didn't see Smith coming, but they knew he was there. Seabiscuit by Laura Hillenbrand And that's the last lines of Seabiscuit and that is Smith, the trainer of the horses. He's the whisperer that was able to bring Seabiscuit back from hopelessness, and it's symbolic of all the characters in Seabiscuit as well without creating too many spoilers. So that is technique two. And that is basically to make sure that endings should basically clarify what's going on in the intro or answer back to it in some way and leave some kind of hint of mystery but seemed just right. And that's what this particular technique should do and I will see you in the next technique.