If you're telling a story it's always best not to play the ending.
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As an actor, I think a mistake that any storyteller can make is to play the ending.
I think if you're writing a play, it should be its own end game; you'll never get to do a good one unless you know it's not a blueprint for a film; you're not going to get the action right and the story right.
It's a tough job to tell a story when the audience already knows the ending, and the ending is bleak.
If you want a happy ending, that depends, of course, on where you stop your story.
I'm one of those people who think that stories should have a beginning, a middle and an end, and then they're over, and then you tell the next story.
You don't reach points in life at which everything is sorted out for us. I believe in endings that should suggest our stories always continue.
With any character you portray, you can never play the end in the beginning. You have to pursue and attack your intention as if they're going to be successful.
I think stories do have an ending. I think they need to have an ending eventually because that is a story: a beginning, middle and end. If you draw out the end too long, I think storytelling can get tired.
You have considerable choice in how you end your fiction. For all stories, the basic rule is the same: Choose the type of ending that best suits what's gone before.
Usually I'll write all the way through to an end, and then I go back and try to fix the ending so that it makes sense. I don't think out the plot ahead of time.