Thursday, November 1, 2018

The Ending--Writing Tip

What kind of ending delivers?

It depends.

What is your story trying to accomplish?
Are you aiming for emotional satisfaction or intellectual satisfaction?
Have you promised the reader a fright or love or justice?
Have you promised the answer to a problem?
A new insight?
The "warm fuzzies"?

What forces were set in motion throughout your narrative, and who is going to be triumphant?

Either way, the ending should satisfy, it should be logical, and it should be emotional.

It should grow out of who your characters are.

There is no such thing as a "one size fits all" ending. If the climax could happen to anyone, it's not your character's climax.

Be Brilliant!

~Katie~