Sorry I’m behind! NaNoWriMo starts in less than a month, and I have a story that I want to write… but I don’t know the end!
They say that you should never start writing a book until you have the ending planned. This is hard for me because I’m a beginning/ middle writer.
There is a fantastic novel called the Book of Story Beginnings. It is about all those ideas and fragments of stories that people come up with but never finish. I recommend it, just for fun, though it isn’t too deep.
But, as we saw in the Pixar’s 22 Rules of Storytelling a few weeks ago, endings are hard. After all, they are one of the most important parts of the story told. If there was no ending, why bother telling it at all?
Often (though not as often as I would like), good stories write themselves, if you let them. If you let your characters meld with their setting and their conflict, it may become clear what they must do, what will happen, and what has ‘got to give’, as they say.
But then, isn’t it better to write the beginning of a story and wait for the end to come to you than not to write it at all? I am inclined to think that it is.
Still, I feel restless while I don’t know.
They say that you should never start writing a book until you have the ending planned. This is hard for me because I’m a beginning/ middle writer.
There is a fantastic novel called the Book of Story Beginnings. It is about all those ideas and fragments of stories that people come up with but never finish. I recommend it, just for fun, though it isn’t too deep.
But, as we saw in the Pixar’s 22 Rules of Storytelling a few weeks ago, endings are hard. After all, they are one of the most important parts of the story told. If there was no ending, why bother telling it at all?
Often (though not as often as I would like), good stories write themselves, if you let them. If you let your characters meld with their setting and their conflict, it may become clear what they must do, what will happen, and what has ‘got to give’, as they say.
But then, isn’t it better to write the beginning of a story and wait for the end to come to you than not to write it at all? I am inclined to think that it is.
Still, I feel restless while I don’t know.
Zoë
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