this is the end. (of writing boring endings)

Welcome back to Clownin' with Andrew--let's talk about endings 🤡
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[@Onthewayover]

This entire episode was phenomenal, but the final second truly surpassed my expectations!

[@WritingwithAndrew]

Ha, thanks!

[@ormulyce]

The perfect example of a good surprising ending :)

[@FreyaFerret]

Plot twist! What an evil mastermind 🤯 Clownin’ with Andrew FOREVERRRR!!!

[@WritingwithAndrew]

lol, we're just getting started...

[@ormulyce]

It was hilarious; wonderful work. The advice is perfect. And I'm sure that your students cannot wait to see your new look again. 🤣

[@WritingwithAndrew]

Haha, thanks!

[@ormulyce]

@@WritingwithAndrew my pleasure 😃

[@angiuliaguiar3724]

Jorge Ben Jor mentioned!

[@WritingwithAndrew]

You know it!

[@eashanshenai4980]

I thought the 'By Jorge' mentioned by Kaput was in reference to Jorge Luis Borges 😅

[@angiuliaguiar3724]

@@eashanshenai4980 I was actually referring to Kaput's 'os alquimistas estão chegando' (Portuguese for 'the alchemists are coming'), a song by Brazilian musician Jorge Ben Jor

[@eashanshenai4980]

@@angiuliaguiar3724 Oh, I see. I made the relation because 'By God' is a phrase of exclamation and people who are into literature sing big praises about Borges, which lead to the connection 'Jorge = God' 😅

[@HarmonicEpsilonDelta]

I discovered your channel after the "How to read (and even enjoy) poetry". I was never interested in "formal" or classical books, even though I tried multiple times to like them. However, I have fallen in absolute love with your channel and you are most definitely helping me in getting into that. Just wanted to say thank you and great video!

[@WritingwithAndrew]

Thanks for the kind words--I'm really glad the channel is resonating. I'm not much for the classics either, for what it's worth

[@delstanley1349]

I remember a few episodes of Rod Serling's original "Twilight Zone," one was called "The Invaders," starring Agnes Morehead. In the episode we see images of a mid 19th century house in the US Midwest, perhaps Illinois, or Iowa, or Indiana. The house has a chimney, inside the house there is a brick wall, there are bowls and plates and tools, and there is an attic, and a ladder to climb to the attic. Outside there are white clouds, stratus (or something) I think. The lone person there, a woman who has a "normal looking to me" hairdo, she's wearing a standard dress for the period, she uses familiar tools. EVERYTHING, I mean EVERYTHING about the scene suggest life in a rural section of North America. Then at the least minute we learn that she is a "giant," somewhere in the solar system, or other unfamiliar place. How so? Because these little men in space suits (US Air force) in her attic, that came from Earth is telling us so. This is like pulling a pair of small slightly curved yellow fruits from what looks like a banana plant, giving it to a monkey who peels it and eats it, and the other banana is used making a banana's foster in New Orleans, then someone comes along and says, "psyche, that fruit was really an apple from the garden of Zorgon, got'cha! I bet you thought it was a banana, huh?" The episode gets praised for its "twist ending." I say phony! Per your video you couldn't have seen it coming, it was never meant to.

[@WritingwithAndrew]

Interesting--I suppose Twilight Zone gets away with announcing the weirdness up front. But, yeah, the banana example is a good illustration of the point: it feels like a cheap trick that doesn't have as much meaning as it could if we knew about Zorgon and the implications of their banana-adjacent fruits beforehand

[@AlienLabrador]

Great video! Maybe you should do another video on something just as challenging: writing good beginnings and opening chapters.

[@starphantasm9346]

This was a very humorous episode. It’s only about the 4th of yours or so that I’ve watched, but this has made me a real fan. I’ve been writing and experimenting a ton more thanks to you; therefore, thank you.

[@WritingwithAndrew]

Thanks--I'm glad to hear you've been writing more. Keep it up!

[@ab1otic222]

I enjoyed everything about this video! The obvious exception to the rule, of course, is Alice in Wonderland, as at the end Alice wakes from her dream just as the cards are attacking her. A story I enjoy that sort of goes the other way is The Lathe of Heaven, where we start in reality and end in a sort of dream-like state. Then, in The Three Stigmata of Eldritch Palmer, we end up with a dream-like state slightly but significantly corrupting the waking state. But for all three, the inevitability, looking backwards, when you get to the end is there.

[@WritingwithAndrew]

Thanks! Those are great examples, too, of how it's not the dream itself that causes trouble so much as the poor execution that short-circuits the stakes of a story

[@melvinvlot5635]

This skull-clown lore really is something different

[@kaputmortuum]

A rivalry older than recorded history and rarely discussed. We must remain ever vigilant lest the clown(s) return...

[@concertautist4474]

Well played, sir.

[@WritingwithAndrew]

😜

[@eashanshenai4980]

I think Chekov's Gun needs to be used more creatively in movies. Nowadays, if I see the camera linger on a gun or a knife for a second too long, then the upcoming fight and its outcome becomes way too predictible. Also, I think Twin Peaks Season 2 has the best 'I didn't see it coming but the clues were all there' moment, with regards to who the killer was.

[@WritingwithAndrew]

Definitely a tool that can be used ineffectively. I've never seen Twin Peaks, but I always hear positive things...I may have to check it out someday...

[@rainygreymornings]

Nice to see you back, oh shiny one. Does this mean no more unhinged stunts and back to business as normal? 🥲 Which was good, don’t get me wrong, I enjoyed the videos before Kaput‘s journey. It’s just that, now I know the level of epic meta weirdness that’s on the table… well. I’m hoping the gun goes off, is all.

[@WritingwithAndrew]

🤷 We'll just have to wait and see, won't we...?