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teachingliteracy: amandaonwriting: How to end your novel The Dos and Don’ts By James V. Smith Jr. Don’ts Don’t introduce any new characters or subplots. Any appearances within the last 50 pages should have been foreshadowed earlier, even if mysteriously. Don’t describe, muse, explain or philosophize. Keep description to a minimum, but maximize action and conflict. You have placed all your charges. Now, light the fuse and run. Don’t change voice, tone or attitude. An ending will feel tacked on if the voice of the narrator suddenly sounds alien to the voice that’s been consistent for the previous 80,000 words. Don’t resort to gimmicks. No quirky twists or trick endings. The final impression you want to create is a positive one. Don’t leave your reader feeling tricked or cheated. Dos Do create that sense of Oh, wow! Your best novelties and biggest surprises should go here. Readers love it when some early, trivial detail plays a part in the finale.  Do enmesh your reader deeply in the outcome. Get her so involved that she cannot put down your novel to go to bed, to work or even to the bathroom until she sees how it turns out. Do resolve the central conflict. You don’t have to provide a happily-ever-after ending, but do try to uplift. Readers want to be uplifted, and editors try to give readers what they want. Do afford redemption to your heroic character. No matter how many mistakes she has made along the way, allow the reader—and the character—to realize that, in the end, she has done the right thing. Do tie up loose ends of significance. Every question you planted in a reader’s mind should be addressed, even if the answer is to say that a character will address that issue later, after the book ends. Do mirror your final words to events in your opener. When you reach the ending, go back to ensure some element in each of your complications will point to the beginning. It’s the tie-back tactic. Merely create a feeling that the final words hearken to an earlier moment in the story. By James V. Smith Jr. Source for Dos and Don’ts. Visit Writers Digest for more. Stephanie Meyer could have used this.

teachingliteracy:

amandaonwriting:

How to end your novel

The Dos and Don’ts By James V. Smith Jr.

Don’ts

  1. Don’t introduce any new characters or subplots. Any appearances within the last 50 pages should have been foreshadowed earlier, even if mysteriously.
  2. Don’t describe, muse, explain or philosophize. Keep description to a minimum, but maximize action and conflict. You have placed all your charges. Now, light the fuse and run.
  3. Don’t change voice, tone or attitude. An ending will feel tacked on if the voice of the narrator suddenly sounds alien to the voice that’s been consistent for the previous 80,000 words.
  4. Don’t resort to gimmicks. No quirky twists or trick endings. The final impression you want to create is a positive one. Don’t leave your reader feeling tricked or cheated.

Dos

  1. Do create that sense of Oh, wow! Your best novelties and biggest surprises should go here. Readers love it when some early, trivial detail plays a part in the finale. 
  2. Do enmesh your reader deeply in the outcome. Get her so involved that she cannot put down your novel to go to bed, to work or even to the bathroom until she sees how it turns out.
  3. Do resolve the central conflict. You don’t have to provide a happily-ever-after ending, but do try to uplift. Readers want to be uplifted, and editors try to give readers what they want.
  4. Do afford redemption to your heroic character. No matter how many mistakes she has made along the way, allow the reader—and the character—to realize that, in the end, she has done the right thing.
  5. Do tie up loose ends of significance. Every question you planted in a reader’s mind should be addressed, even if the answer is to say that a character will address that issue later, after the book ends.
  6. Do mirror your final words to events in your opener. When you reach the ending, go back to ensure some element in each of your complications will point to the beginning. It’s the tie-back tactic. Merely create a feeling that the final words hearken to an earlier moment in the story.

By James V. Smith Jr.

Source for Dos and Don’ts. Visit Writers Digest for more.

Stephanie Meyer could have used this.

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macarena-of-time:

theuglyturtleduckling:

waIT THE MACARENA IS ABOUT A GIRL CHEATING ON HER BOYFRIEND WITH TWO OF HIS FRIENDS AND THEN ASKING A BUNCH OF OTHER GUYS TO COME SLEEP WITH HER?????!?!?!?!?!?!?

AYYYYY MACARENA 

COOOOOOOOOOOL! Everybody do the whore dance!!!!!!

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babybehemoth:

Anxiety attacks are the worst because sometimes you have no idea why you’re crying or angry and you just think of everything wrong in your life and you can’t control it all you can do is breath in and out and cry it out

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So after all this time, I am back on Tumblr. xD But for how long?! O_o


Anyway, I think I might make a new blog alongside this one. Which will actually be updated regularly. xD Mainly because it will be filled with writing and shit.

rhapsody-tardisblue: kanayas-quivering-member: nerdocity: I saw this on Facebook, though it was worth a share. Dear chris,I came back from a hard walk down to the grass market to find that you had put cups of water all around my room, and writen on my door “revenge kenny” with tooth paste.This was a mild inconvenience. So upon finding this we at 18/3 started plotting on how to return the favour. So i put it to you Chris.I WANT TO PLAY A GAME.As you can see from the following photo I have taken your door handle and the 4 screws to hold it ont the door.I have also taken all the cups of water from my room and placed them outside your room, following this I took the water which we used to clean the tooth paste off my door and filled some of the cups with it.In several of these cups are hidden the 4 screws.My game to you is you must drink EVERY cup of water/toothpaste to then find the 4 screws. You may be thinking you can just empty them out and find the screws that way rather than drinking them. However unless you actually drink them ALL, I will not give you the clue as to where your door handle is hidden.The choice is your Chris…Stay locked out.or drink it all. HOLY SHIT IS THIS GUY ACTUALLY SATAN??? excellent. ……… :o

rhapsody-tardisblue:

kanayas-quivering-member:

nerdocity:

I saw this on Facebook, though it was worth a share.

Dear chris,

I came back from a hard walk down to the grass market to find that you had put cups of water all around my room, and writen on my door “revenge kenny” with tooth paste.

This was a mild inconvenience.



So upon finding this we at 18/3 started plotting on how to return the favour. 
So i put it to you Chris.

I WANT TO PLAY A GAME.

As you can see from the following photo I have taken your door handle and the 4 screws to hold it ont the door.
I have also taken all the cups of water from my room and placed them outside your room, following this I took the water which we used to clean the tooth paste off my door and filled some of the cups with it.

In several of these cups are hidden the 4 screws.

My game to you is you must drink EVERY cup of water/toothpaste to then find the 4 screws. You may be thinking you can just empty them out and find the screws that way rather than drinking them. However unless you actually drink them ALL, I will not give you the clue as to where your door handle is hidden.

The choice is your Chris…

Stay locked out.

or drink it all.

HOLY SHIT IS THIS GUY ACTUALLY SATAN???

excellent.

……… :o

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darrynek:

i have a can of spray paint.  i see a large, white, blank wall.  this is it.  this is my big moment to stick it to the man. i begin to sweat profusely contemplating the absolute worst, foulest, most vile swear word in the english language.  my hand trembles as i lift my can up and begin to spray. before long, my masterpiece is complete.  i have done it

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vgkait: It is the start of the year 2000, and something is wrong. Husbands and wives wake up next to each other, scared. They don’t know who the person in the bed with them is. Who is this person? Why are they in my house? Is this my house? Is this their house? They go out to investigate. A five-year-old child uses a Windows 98 computer in the living room. The child turns around, and asks, “Is it time for me to go to school, mommy?” The world is in panic. The President of the United States, who awoke in the Oval Office with no knowledge of being elected, calls for a large-scale investigation. After weeks of asking adults and children alike what is going on, and looking at the various public records, they realize that the children are not confused at all. The adults can only remember what last happened in 1989. However, the children that can speak say that they were born anywhere from 1991 to 1996. Public officials can only draw one conclusion. To every adult, the 1990s never happened. The children, however, cannot have come from nowhere. It doesn’t take long after this conclusion for them to realize that only 90s kids remember the 90s. Hahahahahahahahaha this is perfect. <3

vgkait:

It is the start of the year 2000, and something is wrong.

Husbands and wives wake up next to each other, scared. They don’t know who the person in the bed with them is. Who is this person? Why are they in my house? Is this my house? Is this their house?

They go out to investigate. A five-year-old child uses a Windows 98 computer in the living room. The child turns around, and asks, “Is it time for me to go to school, mommy?”

The world is in panic. The President of the United States, who awoke in the Oval Office with no knowledge of being elected, calls for a large-scale investigation.

After weeks of asking adults and children alike what is going on, and looking at the various public records, they realize that the children are not confused at all. The adults can only remember what last happened in 1989. However, the children that can speak say that they were born anywhere from 1991 to 1996. Public officials can only draw one conclusion.

To every adult, the 1990s never happened. The children, however, cannot have come from nowhere.

It doesn’t take long after this conclusion for them to realize that only 90s kids remember the 90s.

Hahahahahahahahaha this is perfect. <3

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