How To End a Story

[NOIRTRASH]

There are bazillions of ways to end a story badly, its done all the time.

Huck Finn is prolly the best example of how to end a story well tho I don't care for the ending. At the end Jim the slave learns he was emancipated, and all the bull shit he and Huck experienced was wasted time and effort. I call it a PARADIGM SHIFT because the core thesis changed to its opposite or ANTITHESIS. Slave vs free.

My lone E story starts with a woman striving to save her soul from Satan, and ends when she saves her life by trading her soul to Satan for escape from certain death. Life vs Soul. Its a paradigm shift.

 

[TxRad]

The End

 

[SusanJillParker]

There are bazillions of ways to end a story badly, its done all the time.

Huck Finn is prolly the best example of how to end a story well tho I don't care for the ending. At the end Jim the slave learns he was emancipated, and all the bull shit he and Huck experienced was wasted time and effort. I call it a PARADIGM SHIFT because the core thesis changed to its opposite or ANTITHESIS. Slave vs free.

My lone E story starts with a woman striving to save her soul from Satan, and ends when she saves her life by trading her soul to Satan for escape from certain death. Life vs Soul. Its a paradigm shift.

To be continued... is one of my favorite endings that's not really an ending.

 

[Gorza]

FIN.

 

[49greg]

"The Princess Bride" movie had a good ending, better than the book. Although when they show the movie on TV they often cut it off.

As you wish.

 

[Zeb_Carter]

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[Carnevil9]

My stories tend to be plot driven. The story arc comes to me first. So the ending is pretty much given. I'm not saying this makes for good stories, mind you, but at least I never have to wonder, "how should I end this beast?"


PS - for you journalism majors:

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[SusanJillParker]

My stories tend to be plot driven. The story arc comes to me first. So the ending is pretty much given. I'm not saying this makes for good stories, mind you, but at least I never have to wonder, "how should I end this beast?"

PS - for you journalism majors:

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Just as I didn't enjoy my news writing, screen writing, and magazine writing classes, I loved my creative writing classes.

A good course to take is Creative Autobiography. Oxymoronic in title, I was skeptical until I took the course. Basically you write your autobiography but embellish it.

I especially like the part in my autobiography where I was a super-heroin and could fly (lol).

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[NOIRTRASH]

Just as I didn't enjoy my news writing, screen writing, and magazine writing classes, I loved my creative writing classes.

A good course to take is Creative Autobiography. Oxymoronic in title, I was skeptical until I took the course. Basically you write your autobiography but embellish it.

I especially like the part in my autobiography where I was a super-heroin and could fly (lol).

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I lucked out, plenty of my antecedents were natural born humorists and able to record events and experiences that are funny to read.

 

[NOIRTRASH]

https://archive.org/stream/recollectionsofr00injohn#page/678/mode/2up

An online copy of the book my 3rd great grandmother published in 1869.

 

[jehoram]

"Then they all got run over by a truck."

 

[NotWise]

I apparently found out how *not* to end a story. I got enough upset readers' comments to that effect that I felt obliged to remind them that it wasn't really the end of the story.

 

[CharleneBarr]

In a certain book by a Swedish author. a printer deliberately trashes copies of expensively-bound bibles by printing at the end - 'and they all lived happily ever after.'