: To get an end from a beginning, ask three questions: 1) What changes? 2) What stays the same? 3) What changes, and then changes back? In Hunger Games, Katniss and Peeta's relationship

To get an end from a beginning, ask three questions:

1) What changes?
2) What stays the same?
3) What changes, and then changes back?

In Hunger Games, Katniss and Peeta's relationship changes, so does her perspective on the world, so does the Hunger Games themselves, and so forth. Her commitment to her family, and pragmatic, resourceful outlook stay the same. The setting changes, and then changes back.

The things that change give you a story (so the reader is interested), the things that stay the same give you continuity (so the reader cares), and the things that change and then change back give you context (so the reader understands the changes). So if you can answer these three questions, you not only have an end, you have a middle as well.

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