How to End a Story
Specific tactics for a successful finish of any non-fiction article
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4 min readFeb 29, 2024
Endings are a lot like beginnings. As the writer, if you don’t know what it wants to be, you might not have a full grasp of your story and all its nuances. You’ll know when your ending is not organic: You’ll be trying to “come up with an ending” instead of having the ending flow from the natural progression of the story.
There’s no right or wrong way to start or end a story. But as a writer and an editor of non-fiction articles, I find beginnings often suggest…