Ending things

[BillBaloney]

I know, exactly, how things ended up years ago. But they seem sort of calm and cooling right now. What I got is a half way story, (or maybe less) that needs an ending that seems plausible. Can you or anyone help?

Bill

 

[nakdsub]

Need some information

Don't you think you should let us know a few things? What kind of story are we talking about? what's the plot? where are you in the story? How would you like it to end?
Something!

 

[BillBaloney]

Yep, now that I read what I put down, it was sort of vague. Have been reading other L. items instead.

Bill

 

[BONNIEBREA]

I can't provide any help with the current story. But perhaps you might think about conceptualizing your stories in a different way.

I always know the beginning and ending of my stories right from the start (the end may slip and slide around a little bit before it gets where it needs to be, but it always ends up close to where I'd first conceptualized it). Once you know where you're starting and where you're ending the body of the story (at least in relatively broad outlines) tends to write itself.

I'm simplifying some. The bodies of my stories can be difficult to write often because I very much like developing inticate plots and characters. So details and interrelationships will change and I'll get good ideas for connections while I'm writing. For example, in my current story in the opening chapters there is a rival character to the main character. And there are some boys who had snooped in one of their sister's underwear drawer. The two were separate - the underwear drawer girl in the earliest chapters and the rival a chapter or two further along. Although it seems obvious now (as all things do in hindsight), I was some ways into the writing before I realized the underwear drawer girl and the rival girl had to be the same person. The change also provided a powerful new element in the dynamics between the main character and the rival character.

So anyway, perhaps give that a try. Every author knows where the story starts. But rather than just beginning to navigate forward and hoping to figure out what the end is as you get there, instead try to imagine where the plot ends (and often that can be informed by deciding where you want your main character(s) to be at the end of the story) and then go back to figuring out how you connebt those two points.