NOTE: This was originally planned as a three-part series, but I couldn’t figure out how to end it (just kidding). I broke it into four parts to keep each segment more manageable.
Have you ever read an enjoyable book but the ending fizzles and feels flat? Compare that to an enjoyable book where the ending hits you right between the eyes, or in the gut, or in the heart.
Which book are you more likely to remember and recommend to friends?
As a writer, have you ever come to the end of your novel-in-progress, knowing how it ends, but then you just keep writing, trying to figure where to cut it off? How to end it once and for all?
The key, obvious of course, is to end at just the right spot on just the right note. Cut it off too soon, and you leave readers hanging. Drag it out too long, and it fizzles rather…
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