How to write the best ending?

If there is something more important than a good first paragraph, that is a good ending. If you do not have it, it is like losing the reader the hours spent Reading. Now, it is easy to say, but how do you write a good ending?

It is a big question and in the next article we will try to unmask it.

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It seems very complicated to reach the end and get close the circle, that all the elements that you have been listing throughout the novel fit in a perfect puzzle, but it is always posible. Especially when you are novel, it costs to finish with the novel, with that little son you have conceived, drawing it out of your own mind and now, more than ever, you need to end it with him. As much as you think you still have 200 pages left, do not make him agonize.

I know you love to enrich the story with every detail, but if they do not contribute anything important, it is best to remove them from the story, do not think any more.

1- We must find the precise moment to write the last pages and thus we will give with the key. We must keep the flame of reading alive in our reader. Therefore, you should start it right when the reader is still in tension, that is the moment to begin to blow out the last lunges and finish fitting the pieces.

2- Before writing the ending, you must ask a question, Where is the conflict (knot) of my plot ?. Now that you have it in your mind, you can only do one thing, imagine how it all ends. At least get an idea. From there, start writing anywhere you see the possibilities. Let this list rest for a while and then read it again. Some other ending will seem absurd and surreal. Another non-viable because in the meantime another character has appeared in your head. Others will be discreet and some really good. Play with them, cross them, cut them, adjust the shot until you reach an excellent final. Because you have it and you know it, you just need to visualize it.

3- To finish, the most important thing, your end cannot be without reason. Do not deceive the reader with surprises or magic, it has not come this far for that. Or dead back to life, no one will believe that a character who has died is now alive again. Make the reader enjoy your final, but at the same time read at an incredible speed because he wants to know what is going to happen. Because, if your reader has endured so far, it deserves a grand finale.


What do you think of the advice? Do you have some different ones for your final? Will you use them? Tell me your experience with the novels you have written or read. We all have a lot to learn.