Business professor brought in his dog to class to help calm nerves before the big exam.
Are you nearly finished writing your story? In this post, we look at five ways to ruin the ending of your novel, which you should avoid.
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You’ve sweated blood and tears over your novel.
It’s your baby. And now it’s time to release it into the world.
But you have a doubt. Did you nail the ending? Will the reader be blown away? Or will they wonder why they bothered to finish it at all?
Have you just ruined your great novel with a dud ending?
In Amanda Patterson’s excellent article on exercises for writing endings, she quotes Mickey Spillane: “Nobody reads a book to get to the middle.”
Obvious, but true.
The impression a reader will carry away with them will be formed more by the ending of your novel than anything else.
So how can you avoid the pain of writing your heart out, only for all your efforts to fall flat in the last pages? The answer is simple. Forearmed is forewarned. So here are 5 great ways to ruin the ending of your novel, so you don’t do the same.
5 Great Ways To Ruin The Ending Of Your Novel
Lynx which fell asleep on a porch is woken up by its tiny counterpart
excuse me! EXCUSE ME. how did you get big???
“My cat’s favorite game is tug of war. He wants to be pulled slowly around the apartment for 15-30 min at a time and cries if you drop your end of the toy.”
We love Black Girl Greatness in Middle Grade! Done reading this week’s WNDB Summer Reading pick, A GOOD KIND OF TROUBLE by Lisa Moore Ramée? Check out our discussion guides and activities for the book, along with the reads below:
- For Black Girls Like Me by Mariama J. Lockington
- From The Desk of Zoe Washington by Janae Marks
- The Jumbie God’s Revenge by Tracey Baptiste
- Just South of Home by Karen Strong
- So Done by Paula Chase
- The Only Black Girls in Town by Brandy Colbert
- Two Naomis by Olugbemisola Rhuday-Perkovich
- Ways to Make Sunshine by Renée Watson
I love people with obscure knowledge or useless academic insights. I want to hear your analysis of lighting in Ratatouille. Tell me about the history of soda pop or the references to classical mythology in Macbeth. I want to know about the underlying homoerotic context of that 1930s sci-fi paperback. I think all knowledge is worthwhile knowledge. Explain to me the ecosystems that komodo dragons inhabit. Don’t be afraid to learn for the sake of learning.
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