I can't see it. Where's the ending?


Hello everyone, 

I've taken a few days off to clear my mind from any work: job or writing. I wanted to take a step back from it all, which has definitely helped. But now, after a short period of self-reflection, I have noticed that I can't see the ending. It's not clear to me. When I write, I see things unfolding fast in my mind, and I can easily go through the story and where it should end. I already know how Light My Way ends, but I don't know how Graven does. There are too many things that I have left unsaid and they are coming back to me now. Too many instances that are pivotal to character development, also necessary for me to cleanse out of my mind in writing. There are details I forgot, or kind of chosen to forget so that the pain becomes more bearable, but that's a bit of a betrayal of what truly happened. I have nothing to lose by writing this the way that it actually happened. At worst, people won't care, at best, people will empathize. Either way, I want to write the story that I want to read. 

But the problem remains: I can't see the end. That's because there's not enough in the beginning and the middle. I need more details, more events happening, more, more, more...The end is blurry, and although I have one line I can take, I'm not particularly happy with it. It feels shallow. Not a fan of that. I want the story to kind of write itself at the end so that everyone, including myself, is swept away by it and it should feel natural. The progression reads out really well, but there are instances that I feel I forced for the sake of the plot to move to where I want it to be. Those parts need work so that the end can reveal itself to me. 

I feel like that's the missing part. I need to go back to the start and add more. I mentioned in my last post that I figured out my weaknesses, but trying to figure out the ending got me in a real slump. Whenever I sit down to write, I usually know what's coming, but this time...it's a blank. Or it's at least too hazy. I don't like that. 

Either way, I started today from ground zero. I printed out the manuscript and am going through it adding notes on each page. I'll probably miss a typo here and there, but I got the process going. I hope I'm not overhyping this and then it all falls flat on me for being a disappointing novel :D Even so...At least, I had fun writing it.

See you in rainy Kazuul,
Hadrian Maximus

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Hey Hadrian, Stuck endings totally suck! I get that fuzzy feeling, too. Restarting is a great move. It's awesome you're still stoked about it—that's the best fuel. Don't sweat forcing the ending; it will work out in the end. I mean, because you're natural 😋. Now take it one step at a time 😝