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Essay: HOW I WROTE… The Penultimate Scene of ‘Relativity’

  • Client: Writing Queensland
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I’VE always seen the world primarily in patterns. This is probably why I love mathematics and etymology. The word penultimate is pieced together from Latin paene ‎(almost) + ultimus ‎(last): not the end but close. Relativity’s ending was clear from the first draft but the penultimate scene – post-climax yet pre-coda – continued to feel like an impossible problem with no solution almost until I’d finished the final draft.

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