Tying the knots
Painting With WordsEnding a story can be hard, especially if you've been writing the story for a while now. Here are some ways on how you can officially tie the knot.
- What do you want the ending of the story to be?
- Identify the end of your story - In which you decide that that's enough, everything's resolved and whatnot.
- Consider your environmental factors. Is it too early? Too late? Are you tired? Is it peaceful or do you like it noisy?
- Ask yourself questions. For example, these could be, 'What is the main point of my story?" "What is the main conflict?" "Is everything satisfactory?"
- Ask someone to read over your work. Feedback is important, trust me! Or you can always read it yourself and edit the hell out of it.
- REVISE! REVISE! REVISE!
There are many 'types' of endings for a story. However, we can narrow these few down.
1. Resolved ending - All conflicts and the loose ends are tied up neatly. It's a satisfactory ending for the readers and the author. This denotes that this will only be a singular book or the very last one.
2. Unresolved - Main conflict of that part is tied up, but there are still loose ends. In saying this, it is unfinished. This ending leaves readers on edge and also hints that there will be a second part of the sorts.
3. Twist - The ending is not what many people think and turns people's worlds upside down.
4. Back to the beginning - The ending goes right back to the beginning. Gives the story a sense of completeness. This ending uses the same 'format' in terms of dialogue, setting, description and point of view. (To me, this is one of the most satisfactfory)
5. To the future - The ending depicts what happens to the characters in future. For example, the ending can skip five years ahead.
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