END OF BOOK When you bog down near the end of a book or a story, it often means you have written past your ending. I do that all the time on short stories. I’ll be typing along with the sense that the ending should be coming up soon and then I’ll just bog down. Usually I’ll sit there trying to figure out the end before I have the realization to look back a little bit at what I have already typed. Often, more times than not, the great ending is back a hundred words or so. I wrote it and then just kept typing.
