Neverending Story

[SimplyTurquoise]

Aside from my one-shots I have about 5 or 6 stories in the process right now. Some of them are pretty far into the story and others just at their begining, yet I find it highly difficult to bring a story to a close. I can get to the point where I'm right at the middle of the story and need to bring it down to a close, but that's the problem... I just can't seem to do it to my approval...

Any tips or ideas that might help?

[Celarania]

Maybe just think of how to continue it with a fair deal of action and you might come upon the ending. Also you might just want to think of an ending and start writing it, then something might come along that's better. ^_^ I hope this helped.

[SimplyTurquoise]

Thanks...

I think I'll try that... I suppose I do that with a few of my one-shots... not exactly the same thing, but I knew how I wanted it to end!

Yea... thanks again!

[trekkiexb5]

Outline your story. Even if you have already started to work on it. That's what I do. Even if the story changes, I keep the goal the same. Also limit the number of chapters. It's like sweets. If you limited to two candy bars aday, then you get the best two candy bars out there. And you will write the best two chapters for that story.

Then again, I only have one story

[brandi]

I know that I may not have any fics posted here, but I'm still a respectably experienced writer, so I may have soem very helpful advice. But then agian this is just what works for me.

I've come to find that if I don't start with a end goal in mind, the story tends to be quite a bad one. Without a goal in front of you, it's very difficult to shape your characters and plot to what you want them to be. They'll usually end up being entierly different than what you started out with.

My advice for a story already in the make is to look at what you've got, and try to come up with an end goal to suit where your story is already haeding then think of what neds to happen to take it there. Look at how your characters have developed and where you want to go from where they already are. What events do you want to shape their future? When everything is said and done, where do you want them to be?

By asking yourself these things, you may find that it's actually easier than you might think. Just sit down with the world you've created and find out what you want the reader to walk away with. Weather it's a theme or the memory of a character or just the feeling that the story triggers within the reader, it's all shaped by the ending and what has changed from the begging.

Good luck!