Thrilling End

You know that moment in which you get to the last couple of chapters in a book and you're waiting for that climatic ending to wrap up the entire delicious story, no matter how neat or messy it is. What if the ending doesn't come? What if it's an ending which leaves one unsatisfied? Is there an end in sight? Well, I'm sitting here today wondering that exact same thing. What happens when the finale eludes you?

These days, I'm working on my third (delectable and some would say controversial) novella for my series and for one reason or another the ending just eludes me.

I have a few pieces and glimpses of ideas trickling through, while inspiration percolates somewhere far off just beyond my reach. I have conjured up some alternate endings, none of which feel right. So, I patiently wait for the flood gates from that imaginary dam to finally burst open from insurmountable pressure it can no longer contain. Alas, allowing me to know how my own novella will end.

For the reader, the end can be the most thrilling part. Anticipation is cooked up as they move along that conveyor belt building to an all-time grandiose conclusion, leaving one with emotions they didn't even realize they had invested. Or even sometimes when an ending leaves you hanging, it still conjures up emotions of some sort depending who you are.

Yet as an author and writer, it's vindication of wrapping up another book under your belt while you learn and grow as a writer. Is there a better feeling of initial accomplishment? However, to be the author and left out of the finale of your own book is but a cruel irony that cannot even be expressed on paper. Or can it?



It brings on incredible feelings of frustration, vulnerability or lack for a part of oneself. You want to work, but stagnant creativity keeps you from it temporarily. Is this a form of the ill-fated writers block? I refused to believe it, acknowledge it, or better yet, I refuse to accept it.

We could possibly try to understand it as we work to prevent it in the future. Is this suppose to teach patience? Give a much needed break? Or maybe re-evaluate where the story is headed? Is it in all aspects part of the process?

One could always pull a Hitchcock-ian type ending. As Alfred would put it himself, it's just a 'hitch' make sure you drop the 'cock'. Short and sweet, with a twist of pure madness.

I, like so many other writers, shall carry on with the knowledge and belief when the time is right that ever so elusive ending will come. As writers we need to write, so then our voracious readers will have something to become addicted to. I just keep my fingers crossed and bow down to the writing gods, hoping & praying it's sooner rather than later.

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SK Thomas is a writer, author, book reviewer and the curious creative complex brain behind this blog.

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