Writing Tips: How to Write a Great Ending
When it comes to endings, I have found that a lot of people don’t bring things to a close in a fantastic way. People want to walk away from a book feeling like they read something that was enlightening, exciting and brought all their questions to a close. There are so many books that I have read that had several chapters that were just there to bring thoughts to a close. They were boring.
What do you do to write a great ending? In My Opinion:
- End your story with the climax, or at least move the closing chapter(s) to the epilogue so people know they are an afterthought or just a way to give the readers a little more for their buck.
- End the story with a cliffhanger or a lead-in to the sequal.
- Satify the reader with something they didn’t expect.
- Make sure it ends. There have been a number of books that I have read that ubruptly stop. The writer thinks that he/she is leaving a cliffhanger when they are just leaving more questions in the readers mind than needed.
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