We all know that feeling of looking forward to a Big Day. Even after we’ve outgrown the thrill of candles on our cake, we still feel it before special events.

To give your readers the reward of a satisfying story, there are four things you must keep in mind. The first is the end.

by Shannon Donnelly I’ve been thinking a lot about story endings, probably because I’m getting close to one in the book I’m working on. But also we watched 2 Guns the other day and it has a fabulous mirror from the beginning to ending—that mirror technique where the last scene echoes the opening scene, but […]