The Ending Process

After last week, I was all set to write a series of posts on ways to make up an ending at different points in the writing process – starting with the ending, making it up in mid-story, pantsing right up to the final chapter, etc.  And then I woke up at 4 a.m. with the realization that there is no difference in the process itself. What’s different is the amount of information the writer has, what constraints they’re mostly stuck with, and where they are on the decision tree.

A writer who’s at...