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So today I'm thinking about Epilogues. Here is the Webster official first definition of an epilogue: a concluding section that rounds out the design of a literary work.
How do readers perceive them? As a wrap up? As a future summary? As an "eventual" conclusion. By "eventual", I mean epilogues will often give a future picture as in "3 weeks later" or "6 months later" or even "one year later". Sometimes they're used to give the follow-up to a hard ending or an incomplete ending scene providing a more relieving conclusion to the story.
Should they be short or long? Like a page or two or the length of a chapter? Does it matter?
Do you have any opinions on Epilogues?
Father, help all of us authors to do justice to the stories we write in every sense of the literary reference. You know who you designed us to be as writers. Keep perfecting us. In the Name of Jesus, Amen.