Tuesday's Writer's Tip Endings - Circular #BWLAuthor #MFRWAuthor #Endings #Circluar

 Ending a story can be easy or difficult. Saying good bye to characters who have become friends or family is hard. But saying goodbye is always needed. Now the ending of the story may have more in common with the beginning than the middle. How can this  happen?

The story'd opening is rather vague and uncertain. I have ones tory that definitely has a circular pattern. The heroine arrives at an airport when a pairof twins she is taking to their guardian. Their mother has died. The scene is the airport and her frazzled self when he's not there to greet her. A phone call informs her there is a car she mustclaim and the directions to the house are there.

The story ends in a similar fashion. She has returned hom to arrange for her belongings to be shipped and is returning to the hero and babies. She arrives at the airport for the same scene minus the child but no hero. A phone call sends her to the car rental area. There she finds the car but the hero and the infants to bid her welcome. As you see the end is rather like the beginning but enough different to bring a happy ending,

More ways to end your story will be explored.

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Wednesday - On Plot - Endings

Have you reached the end of your current work in progress. Last week we talked about the different kind of endings. Time to become specific.

Circular endings - The end of a story is rather like the beginning. While the beginning sets the problem the ending brings it to a satisfactory conclusion. In the circular ending the final scene mirrors the beginning but with some differenes. The story is wrapped up. The setting may be the same. Even some the dialogue can be the same. The characters in the story end up in the same place as they did when they began the journey. They re-connect with the start but they have changed and the problem is solved. The characters have grown and changed and they return bringing these changes with them. This is often the way of a quest story.

The contrast with the beginning is the key to a circular ending. No slam-bang action ends the story though it may occur right before the ending. The ending has a calm center. If there is no strong tie between the beginning and the end, the circular story will fall flat.

Circular endings can go wrong. One way is being lost in exposition. The writer continues to explain and explain making the reader impatient to see the words The End. The circular ending should show the homecoming, show the new direction for the characters, show how the crisis has changed the characters and bring the characters home.

A second problem is the absence of a real homecoming. The writer stops the story before the final confrontation and leaves the character in a sort of limbo.

Wednesday -- More on Plot - Reaching for the end

Now comes the hard part. How do you know when the end is reached? Is the ending what you really thought it would be? Th hardest part of ending may be saying goodbye to those characters who have become a great part of your imaginary life.

Endings can be circular or linear. They can be happy, sad or a mix of the two. Often the kind of ending written for a story is chosen by the genre and by the nature of the writer. If you're writing a romance the ending is usually happy. That's what readers expect. Hopefully the writer can reach this ending without having to tack on a short piece showing six months later the couple gets married or nine months later they welcome their first child. Think of the other genres and think of the usual endings. The bad guy is captured. The good wizard defeats the bad.

Another thing about endings is satisfactory or unsatisfactory. A satisfactory ending whether happy, sad or a mix leaves a reader feeling that the writer had accomplished what they set out to do. One that is unsatisfactory may not necessarily be so. If one reader hates the ending that is a matter of their taste. If many readers feel this way the writer has failed to accomplish what he set out to do.

The next few weeks endings and their pitfalls will be discussed.