How to End a Story: 3 Secrets to Writing a Captivating Ending

As a novelist, you’ll find loads of advice to help you find a great book idea, get started writing, and push through what I call the Marathon of the Middle.

But you won’t find as much on how to end a story, even though that’s arguably as important (and maybe more so.)

Of my nearly 190 published books, more than two-thirds have been novels that started as ideas, so I know what most everybody in the business knows: ideas are easy to come by.

Ask any agent, publisher, editor, or movie producer. Eve...