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NaNo Coach: 4 Tips for Ending Your Story

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This season, we’ve brought on published authors to serve as NaNo Coaches to help guide you to reaching 50,000 words. This week’s NaNo Coach, Cari Noga, author of the soon to be re-released novel Sparrow Migrations, shares how to find an ending for your story:

During my first NaNoWriMo win in 2010, sometime after Thanksgiving, I distinctly recall typing the sentence, “Their relationship progressed quickly.”

Ugh. Talk about a horrible sentence. Telling, not showing. Stiff, formal language. And the cardinal writer’s sin: An adverb.

What that sentence did do, however, was cover a heck of a lot of ground in a mere four words. November’s days were dwindling. Somehow, I had to get there from here. Even if it took boring, unsubstantiated sentences.

This week, a lot of your #NaNoCoach questions have focused on how to get to the end. How do you know if you’re on track to finish with a bona fide beginning, middle, and end? Let’s check in on your story arc:

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This is such good advice!

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