Have you already decided the ending before you get to it?

I usually don't have a clue about the ending until just before I get there. Actually, I allow my stories to go wherever they want to go and I just follow along. The trick is to keep writing, even if you think you have a block. A block is normally nothing more than a disagreement between the writer, and where the story itself wants to go.

Sometimes, I do. Sometimes, I don't. I usually think up pretty much the whole story before I write it? Yeah.. I don't know, lol

hi moonlit! well i cannot exactly relate. i have not done creative writing ever since i was in college! lol been cooped up with work and other corporate writings, no more creative juices. lol well, i hope to be able to get back to doing it. if i attempt to write now, my words sound awkward. lol take care and God bless you!

Most of the time I have a direction I am going, toward a certain result, but I don't know exactly how it is going to end or how it is going to get there. Heck, how do you think I wrote a story where the person who the story is named after never even shows up!

Usually I don't already decide the ending. But the story I am working on now I had the ending about a year ago. I had written a short story. I thought it was good and showed it to friends, family and my pastor. When I started writing my new book I told my pastor about the new book. Everytime I see my pastor he tells me how disappointed he is that I never turned the short story into a novel. He was hoping that would be my next book. So, he got me thinking. The short story would make a great ending. Now I'm in the process of working on two projects.

I never know how my stories are going to end and its why so many go unfinished.

I never know how something is going to end until I get there. I don't think my husband does either. He and I just write what comes into our minds. The writers play it out in our heads, and we write it down. Mind you I ted to write true stories, but I don't write them until they have ended. I ever write a story that's still progressing in life.

With my first novel I did because it was a re-write from something I wrote when I was a teenager. With my second novel, the heroine is trying to find her way off an island. She tries different methods over the 9 months she is there and I had no idea how I was going to get her off that island until I got to it. So I didn't know how that one was going to end. My next novel is very sketchy right now. I have a beginning and an idea but I have no idea how it is going to end, or whether anything after the beginning will be anything worthy of making this story a novel. It may end out just being a short story.

You might think i'm weird but whenever i write stories, I have the endings written first. Then I think of how it begins and what's the whole story is about later on.

Hi Moonlit, it's either way. I sometimes think of the start and the end, and then fill in the center portion as the flow goes (provided no blocks ). Or I'll start off, and let the end comes by itself. However, I find it better if I have a end in mind; else I'd be meandering and wondering, and won't be able to reach the end!

Hi moonlit, I dont plan out the ending... I just know its going to be a happy ending... I hate anything else! Actually, I haven't made it to the planning of the ending & I think I'm done planning out anyways... I get to the point where I write out what I want in the planning & it makes my writing seem incomplete, make sense?

I tend to write the last Chapter of my stories and then go back and lead the charactre to the end. You can always change it once you get there if your story take a different turn. It is like driving, hard to get in the car and have no clue where your going, but just because you know the ending there is still great adventure to be had (and a chance for the ending destination to be changed).

When I think of a story to write, I always think of a great powerful beginning, some middle stuff, and then a great ending. I then just let the details and conflicks of the story come with in. I guess I'm too anel to let the ending just happen.