On Endings

"Begin at the beginning and go on till you come to the end: then stop."Lewis Carroll, Alice's Adventures in Wonderland.

 The king's advice to the white rabbit in the above quote seems too easy, too self-explanatory to be of any use to a writer. And yet, how to begin or end a story is an issue I see discussed and bemoaned on craft loops on a regular basis. More emphasis seems to go into the beginning of a book, as that is what agents and editor, and eventually readers will see, but how you leav...