"How to End a Story: Top Tips to Nail the Perfect Ending" Online Article

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This was another ARTICLE I found online that helped me a lot. This was also copied and pasted for anyone who may need inspiration.

Link:
https://blog.reedsy.com/how-to-end-a-story/

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Six Types of Endings (and what they're used for)

1. Resolved Ending

2. Unsolved Ending

3. Ambiguous Ending

4. Unexpected Ending

5. Tied Ending

6. Expanded Ending

Seven Tips to Craft the Perfect Ending

1. Find your ending in the beginning

2. Completion goes hand-in-hand with hope

3. Keep things fresh

4. Make sure it's really finished

5. Last impressions matter

6. Come full circle

7. Leave some things unsaid

Blog > Perfecting your craft - Posted on April 13, 2020

How to End a Story: Top Tips to Nail the Perfect Ending

Whether you have the final scenes of your book worked out from the moment you put pen to paper or it comes to you somewhere along the way, there's one thing every writer needs to master to leave a lasting impression on readers: how to end a story.

Writing the ending can be a source of anxiety for a lot of authors. After all, you don't want to finish a great story with a weak ending and disappoint your readers. To help you effectively bring your novel to a close, this post will cover six popular types of endings found in literature, and provide seven tips (including some from professional editors!) that show that ending a book doesn't have to be hard.

Six Types of Endings (and what they're used for)

The ending has an enormous impact on how (and if) readers will remember your book in years to come. If they are dissatisfied at the closing of the final chapter, they won't likely read it again or share it with others. While the start of your story might convince people to read your book in the first place, the end is what will determine if they turn from a reader into a fan.

Of course there's no universally right or wrong endings. Art is subjective, after all, and every reader will like different things. However, writers must consider reader expectations - and whether their story is best served by meeting or subverting those expectations.

A few things to consider when trying to determine reader expectations are:

Genre

Plot structure

Target audience

Theme and overall message

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