FSN - Day 17 - The End is the Beginning

[ladyseishou]

Day 17 - 14 days until the start of NNWM




An easy beginning for the week Nano Writers: give some thought as to how your story ends. This isn’t a trick question. It’s just a thought exercise about how you might like to see the end of your story go down and to shake up any preconceptions you might unconsciously harbor about story endings: the hero doesn’t always have to win…

Nor do the bad guys necessarily have to lose. Ask yourself what might happen if the bad guys actually found the treasure first? Would they necessarily live happily ever after or for that matter, would the hero? What if winning the climatic battle meant “losing the girl”?

Spend fifteen minutes today re-imagining the different ways your story might end. Do any of your ponderings make a better fit with your premise or even better, provide for an unexpected and perhaps more powerful story? Make a list.

Keeping in mind a possible ending (or two) for your story while you write your novel doesn’t mean putting on blinders and shutting yourself away from all the wonderful, amazingly different roads your character might take from the beginning of your story to its end but it does give you and your characters a destination.

And a choice.


Questions? Thoughts? “Closing” arguments to share? It’s all good! Tomorrow we’ll look at another pivotal moment for our character, perhaps the most important as without it, there would be no story. Until then, keep writing!