Post by account_disabled on Dec 11, 2023 21:40:50 GMT -8
This is an ending, or rather the ending. It must flow, fast and liquid like everything that came before. The reader must think that there will be something else after, even if he will never know it. And this, in my opinion, is important, because in that case the reader will ask himself questions, stop to think and remember that story perhaps better than others. Let's leave epic endings to cinema - maybe not to quality cinema. We write endings that strike the reader with their naturalness, simplicity and credibility.
We write endings that are not endings, but only moments in the continuum of the story.[/tweetable] Stop the story The ending is just the point at which you stop the story. It is this concept – indeed, this literary Phone Number Data dogma – that we must accept. The writer must be able to stop the story at the right moment, neither a moment before nor a moment after. He must not reveal too much about the likely future of that story nor say too little. The skill lies in stopping at the appropriate point, in recognizing when the story can be interrupted without the reader being disappointed by missing information or bored by a surplus of information.
Easy? Maybe, or maybe not. Maybe the best way to write a correct ending is to write it without thinking too much, without thinking for a long time that you are writing the end of the story. Do you agree with these considerations of mine? What kind of endings do you prefer when you read and when you write?That's when he understands. He has already gone back many times in his life, back to write unread stories that would pile up on top of each other without generating readers. But what is a story if it doesn't have a reader? It is a silent reality imprisoned in unconsciousness.
We write endings that are not endings, but only moments in the continuum of the story.[/tweetable] Stop the story The ending is just the point at which you stop the story. It is this concept – indeed, this literary Phone Number Data dogma – that we must accept. The writer must be able to stop the story at the right moment, neither a moment before nor a moment after. He must not reveal too much about the likely future of that story nor say too little. The skill lies in stopping at the appropriate point, in recognizing when the story can be interrupted without the reader being disappointed by missing information or bored by a surplus of information.
Easy? Maybe, or maybe not. Maybe the best way to write a correct ending is to write it without thinking too much, without thinking for a long time that you are writing the end of the story. Do you agree with these considerations of mine? What kind of endings do you prefer when you read and when you write?That's when he understands. He has already gone back many times in his life, back to write unread stories that would pile up on top of each other without generating readers. But what is a story if it doesn't have a reader? It is a silent reality imprisoned in unconsciousness.