Writing prompt #66: ENDINGS

Hi Everyone,

Endings are as crucial as beginnings in your stories and very often intricately connected. Ask yourself these questions, even if you’re nowhere near your ending yet:

1) Are you delivering what you promised readers in your opening sentences?

2) Is your ending both surprising, yet inevitable (thank you, Aristotle)?

3) Is it completing a process of change?

4) Is there a sense of life going on into an uncertain future, yet somehow still beholden to the beginning?

YOUR PROMPT: Write a provisional ending for your work. Make it as short or as long as you need—even a paragraph or a single line will do. Let it inform and anchor what comes before it. Most likely your ending will change as you get closer but it might also provide the horizon you need to keep going now.

Let us know how this goes!

Abrazos,

Cristina