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Troubleshooting Your Story's Ending


How to End a Story: 3 Proven Tips - Jerry Jenkins

1. Keep the End in Sight the Whole Way · Be generous with your readers. · If it's a surprise ending — think of movies like The Sixth Sense or The ...

Novel Endings - Helping Writers Become Authors

Hello, everyone, today we're going to be talking about how to troubleshoot your story's ending. Today's post (which is a transcript of the video ...

Can't Finish Your Story? How To Write the Ending for Your Novel| OBE

The most obvious answer to why you can't finish your story is that you simply don't know the ending. While this is a more common problem for ...

Exit Strategies: So How Are You Supposed to End a Story?

For writers working in all mediums, ending a work can be the most challenging aspect of the writing process. Sure, there are outliers—Toni ...

Ending of Stories: How Planning an Ending Will Help You Write Faster

The simplest way to write a satisfying ending is to resolve a secret or question that remained a mystery throughout the plot. This means that whatever questions ...

Fixing Split Ends: How to End a Story Perfectly | Re:Fiction

How to End a Story: More Tips and Tricks · Return to a Backup Point · Write past the End · Work on Your Closing Line · Create Closure · Add an ...

I can't figure out the ending. - How to Write a Book Now

So here it is. I usually start my stories off with a scene and then go onto developing the plot and everything. The characters are a big help as when I write ...

How to End a Story: 7 Different Kinds of Endings - Scribophile

2. Mystery endings. The golden rule of mystery novels is “expect the unexpected.” If the story you're writing follows a clear, logical path ...

How to End a Story: The 6 Ways All Stories End - Reedsy Blog

A resolved ending answers all the questions and ties up any loose plot threads. There is nothing more to tell because the characters' fates are ...

How to End a Story: A Guide for Novelists - Novel Factory

How to End a Story: 6 Ways to End Your Novel · 1. Happily ever after · 2. Twist · 3. Cliffhanger · 4. Ambiguous ending · 5. Set up the next story · 6.

6 Ways To End a Story (with Examples) - Boords

Your story ending should give your viewer a new perspective, or open their mind to a new way of thinking. It shouldn't leave the viewer too ...

I can never seem to come up with endings for my stories, even when ...

Figuring out what happens next is worryingly difficult. Does the protagonist return to his point of origin, or does he continue on to the person ...

Writing 101: 6 Ways to End Your Story - 2024 - MasterClass

What Is a Tied Ending? A tied ending is on that brings the story full circle—it ends where it begins. This type of ending follows the classic ...

How to Write a Powerful Ending - Writing Mastery Academy

You probably felt as if the author was dragging the story on, making for a less emotionally impactful and satisfying ending. When writing your ...

How to End a Story: 6 Approaches That Lead to Success

Some readers detest not knowing exactly how a story ends. Others love the chance to come to their own conclusion. The suitability of an ...

Story Resolutions: Mastering the Happy-Sad Ending

Very often, it's the ending of a story that sticks with us—because it's our last memory of it, our most recent emotional connection.

Why You Can't Finish Your Story. And how to fix it. - Medium

Solution 1: Write out a list of possible endings, things that could happen to finish off the story. · Solution 2: Freewrite as your main ...

What are some effective ways to end your story? - Writing - LinkedIn

One of the most common and expected ways to end your story is to resolve the main conflict that drives the plot. This can be a fight, a mystery, ...

How To End A Story Perfectly - Jericho Writers

One of the tricks to writing a good ending is to devote as much time to it (if not more) as you've devoted to the beginning. Here's how to end a story in a ...

How to End a Story: 3 Steps to Find Your Perfect Ending

Perhaps the biggest problem with writing an ending is the pressure we put on ourselves to “get it right.” Endings are usually the most memorable part of a story ...