How to Write Captivating Beginnings and Brilliant Endings for Novels

Bestselling author Jennifer Moorman shares her strategies for writing captivating beginnings and brilliant endings for novels.

Planning your Story Beginnings and Endings - Quill and Books

In the beginning, the opening scenes make promises to the reader about the story. The author must pay attention to those promises and fulfil ...

How to start a novel that begins with 'The End.', and finishes ... - Quora

The ending (and the beginning) will occur to you as you're writing the bulk of the story. But start. That's the. Continue Reading.

How to Crack Your Novel's Beginning and Ending - Reedsy Blog

Your beginning and your ending really can make a good novel. Whenever I'm browsing at a bookstore, I always read the first page first, sometimes ...

How to End a Story | The Blog - The Novelry

Another way of emphasizing your take-home message is to hint back to the beginning of your story and suggest how far your main character (or ...

How To Write Endings : r/writing - Reddit

As such, I would always advise writing your story with a planned ending in mind. But some tips to remember are: Resolve your character's true ...

Writing: Beginnings and Endings - Medium

As a writer, with my fiction or creative nonfiction, I often play the movie reel in my head, on repeat, for hours, days, weeks — before or after ...

How To Write Effective Beginnings And Endings In Fiction

Crafting powerful beginnings and endings is crucial in captivating your readers from the very first page to the last.

Is it okay to write the ending of your novel before completing the ...

It really depends on your personal style. I like to plan the whole story out in bullet points and then write from beginning to end, that way I ...

Are Endings Simply New Beginnings? - Learn How To Write A Novel

God is with you during every season in your life, the good and the bad. ... Are you ready to be brilliant? Advanced Writers' Toolkit. Everything ...

100 Ways to End a Story (with examples) - Bookfox

You can't write good fiction without making your characters feel things (and your reader feel things). So here, we see authors ending stories by showing the ...

Why Story Beginnings and Endings Must Be Linked

I've never personally gone to the extent of writing the last chapter first, but I always know what it will be from my outline. Endings never ...

Finishing a Book: How to Write A Good Ending | Kidlit

Endings are a delicate balance. Make sure yours comes at an appropriate time, isn't too rushed or too drawn out, and matches the emotional, thematic, character ...

6 Types Of Story Endings For Your Fiction Novel - Nicole C. W.

Endings too are important because it's the conclusion where everything you've set up comes to an end. It might leave readers guessing or at the ...

How to Write the Ending Of Your Novel | by Ian Canon

The plan you have established should have some sense of impossibility to it. The reader will believe it, because they're reading this novel (or ...

6 Tips for a Satisfying Short Story Ending - Writer's Digest

David Means, author most recently of a new collection of stories, Two Nurses, Smoking, said, “A good ending doesn't answer a question. It opens ...

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 ...

What Are the Best Ways to End a Story? - Write It Sideways

A good ending will leave the reader lingering with thoughts of what might be in store for the characters they've come to know so well.

Ask A Flash Fiction Editor: Endings | Nancy Stohlman

Beginnings and endings are like bookends—all the care taken to hook a reader into a story must be utilized in the same way to cast them out— ...

The importance of a good ending #writingtips - Cryssa Bazos

Everything must lead to the ending, every scene starting from the beginning. There are many writers I know who start by writing the ending first ...