Writing: Finding Your Best Ending

Writing: Finding Your Best Ending

Whether you’re writing a scene or an essay, your ending is the last thing readers see before going on. Here are tips for finding your best ending. Writing Tip for Today: What things can help you write the best possible ending? Agreement Your ending—to a scene or the novel or a nonfiction essay—must agree with […]

Three Ways to Keep Your Readers Reading

Three Ways to Keep Your Readers Reading

I’m coming down on the last few scenes of my work-in-progress, A Sky without Stars. As much as I struggle to be sure the period details ring true (it’s set in 1951 Arizona), my bigger problem is in writing a satisfying ending to the story.Writing Tip for Today: Writers often agonize over details, doing hours […]