By:
K.M. Weiland
Here’s
how to write books readers will love–and yet still end up hating
you for. It’s easy. All you have to do is divebomb out of your brilliance and
into anticlimactic endings.
On
some level, anticlimactic endings are pretty self-explanatory. They’re endings
with no bang in the end. They’re endings that evoke a yawn
from readers instead of a frenzy of page-turning. Instead of being one of the
most satisfying parts of the book, they
end up being one of the most disappointing.
And
the scariest part of all this? The better readers like the
rest of your book, the more it matters to them that the end fulfills all their
hopes (conscious, emotional, and otherwise) for the story. In short, you gotta
get this right.
That’s
a lot of pressure to put on a concept that is actually surprisingly vague when
it comes down to the nitty-gritty of actually preventing it.
All those definitions of anti-climactic endings up there in the second
paragraph? They don’t actually tell you much about the factors that create anti-climactic
endings, or the even more crucial factors that contribute to preventing them.
But
never fear. That’s what this installment of the
Most Common Writing Mistakes series is all
2 Ways to Ruin an Awesome Story With
Anticlimactic Endings
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