If a story isn't working, I'm simply unable to finish it. That's what usually tells me something is wrong.
Sentiment: NEGATIVE
Sometimes I get the story wrong, or it's the wrong story, and then things don't work.
A story is not finished, until it took the worst turn.
I was writing fiction, but not finishing fiction.
The book doesn't end when you finish writing it.
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.
A story really isn't truly a story until it reaches its climax and conclusion.
People have forgotten how to tell a story. Stories don't have a middle or an end any more. They usually have a beginning that never stops beginning.
Sometimes you're not even sure which of your stories were failures. There are things I've written that I thought were complete catastrophes when I finished with them that have gone on to generate some of my most positive feedback.
If you're telling a story it's always best not to play the ending.
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.