Mar 26, 2008 23:37
Finished my "short" story tonight. At 14,100, it's overlong. I will cut 3-4k.
The problem is, it doesn't want to end. It's like the last twenty minutes of The Return of the King: denouement, denouement, denouement. No! Wait! One more. De---nouement. And oh, also, denouement.
Okay, sage advice time: what do you do when you can't find the right note to end on? How do you force the ending, whilst keeping it satisfying?
writing: herbalist's apprentice