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How do you write a good story ending?

Updated: 8/18/2019
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When writing your stories or books, you want to end the writing just after the action is over. Once everything exciting has happened, take a few sentences (or a chapter if it's a book) to "get everyone offstage." Here are things to think about:

  • Make sure that the action is over, and that the reader knows it's over
  • Make sure the reader knows what the characters are going to do once the story ends
  • Make sure that any subject you brought up in your story is either answered, discussed, or very obviously left open for the next story -- most authors keep a list of these "sub-plots" to be sure they don't forget anything at the end
  • Make the ending satisfying! Don't write "and then they woke up," or "and then they rode into the sunset," because those are cliches and boring. Ditto for the old fairy tale "And they lived happily ever after" --- unless you are writing a fairy tale!
  • Make the ending logical. If your characters have been brave and good all through the story, don't make them suddenly shoot the villain in the back to end the story!

However you choose to end your story, it's your story. Write what you want to write!

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