The Final Word on Writing Endings

Is it just the place you stop the story?

Photo credit: “End of 2012 (23 of 55)” by ni7enichi is licensed under CC BY-NC-SA 2.0

I’ve been thinking about endings— specifically, how challenging it is to write a good ending.

Hemingway famously wrote 39 different endings to A Farewell to Arms, and nearly every writer I know has wrangled with a recalcitrant ending in a similar manner (you can now read all of Hemingway’s alternate endings).