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Hello again!\u00a0Welcome back to my series of insights into what\u00a0it\u2019s\u00a0like to undertake the Ultimate Novel Writing Programme<\/strong><\/a>.\u00a0\u00a0<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Month eight \u2013 two thirds of the way through the 12-month course \u2013 and we are talking endings.  <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Real life rarely gives nice, neat, \u2018everything now makes sense\u2019 endings. I think of moments in my life that, in hindsight were endings: the slice of pie my father saved for tomorrow, believing he had a tomorrow. The last time I carried my son on my hip, or the last time my daughter was happy to hold hands in public.  <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Endings are important in stories, and I have a theory as to why: our own mortality, the inevitable ending we all face, is a major reason the artistic endeavour of novels exists. In short, we read novels to practise dying.  <\/p>\n\n\n\n

A novel demands we invest in the illusion of a life \u2013 a life we go on to learn the rhythm of. We become familiar with its timescales and habits; with the loves, regrets and transformations its characters undergo. And then we\u2019re asked to face the ending of these. We turn the last page and find we have to leave. Novels are rehearsals for mortality \u2013 a way to practise the art of letting go. Furthermore, the novel (though I\u2019m happy to include poetry in my thesis) is the only<\/em> art form that does this. Great paintings, transcendent symphonies? These imply, but a novel enacts. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

A painting or a song is experienced in the immediacy of the present \u2014 it\u2019s capable of evoking eternity or the sublime, certainly \u2014 but it cannot carry us through a life lived in time. Whereas a novel unfolds like consciousness. It moves us through sequence, choice and consequence, memory and application. It requires duration, mirroring the shape of a human life. It delves into the interiors of others: we become mind-readers when we are novel-readers. When a novel ends, it doesn\u2019t just stop, it dies \u2013 and as readers, we feel that loss. How many of us approach the ending of a great story with dread, not wanting to let the characters go? Isn\u2019t part of a great ending, from a skilful author, that bittersweet realisation that you\u2019re never going to hear that character say another thing? You\u2019re never going to experience any more of their possibilities. These endings echo our own.  <\/p>\n\n\n\n

In most great novels, the ending doesn\u2019t just provide narrative closure. It asks questions: where and what is the meaning of the story? Has it done enough? What regrets remain, and why? Is there redemption available, or merely resigned comprehension and deflated acceptance? These are life\u2019s big, keep-you-awake-at-three-in-the-morning questions. Music and paintings gesture towards these, but only fiction makes us experience them. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

But there is a paradox, too \u2013 as the novel dies, as the people inside it vanish, there are also beginnings. Something of a book\u2019s characters can remain with us. We get to consider what happened and imagine their next steps. Perhaps we will discuss them with friends and, through those conversations, test out our own life narratives and soul yearnings? We may even \u2013 those of us writing a series \u2013 get to write up what comes next. The metaphysics of the novel intrinsically binds beginnings within endings. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Which is maybe why, in this month of learning all about how to craft a brilliant ending, I actually find myself turning towards the beginning <\/em>of my manuscript.  <\/p>\n\n\n\n

As I have been writing my way towards the end of my first draft, I\u2019ve been experiencing more and more of a \u2018stop\u2019. The words I could conjure were brief; sketchy. Writing began to make me feel a bit burned. I was charred wood, and the story wasn\u2019t getting inside of me anymore. It was because the narrative ending of the story needed more supporting structure at the beginning.  <\/p>\n\n\n\n

So \u2013 as in life, as in novels, endings have beginnings. By working through my Ultimate Novel Writing Programme course materials and discussing the detail with my tutor and peers, I\u2019m better able to understand the significance of my book\u2019s ending \u2013 and see how the structure of the beginning affects it. Heading back to the start of my novel has made the ending feel more alive. I can positively feel it inflating. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Endings are powerful,\u00a0and\u00a0we\u00a0writers\u00a0bear\u00a0a weighty responsibility\u00a0for\u00a0them.\u00a0If you agree with my theory,\u00a0we\u2019re\u00a0purveyors of rehearsed mortality\u00a0\u2013 which\u00a0might be the most human act of all.\u00a0If\u00a0you\u2019re\u00a0anything like me, you might want to get some help and\u00a0assistance\u00a0with\u00a0shouldering\u00a0that responsibility.\u00a0For that support,\u00a0I can highly recommend the Ultimate Novel Writing Programme<\/strong><\/a>!\u00a0<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The Ultimate Novel Writing Programme (and its little sister, the Novel Writing Course) run twice a year. Our most intensive tutored courses, they offer writers more personalised, one-to-one support than is available through any other online writing course. To find out more about either, or to apply to be part of our next cohort, visit the\u00a0Ultimate Novel Writing Programme<\/strong><\/a>\u00a0or the\u00a0Novel Writing Course<\/strong><\/a>\u00a0web page. You can also\u00a0contact us<\/a>\u00a0at any time to chat about your writing journey and explore which, if any, of our courses or services could help you. We love to chat with authors, and we will never sell you a service that we don\u2019t think is the best fit for you \u2013 so don\u2019t be shy!<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Rachel Davidson is a long-term Premium Member of Jericho Writers prior to joining our Writer Support Team, Rachel loves helping hopeful writers, such as herself, to solve their problems and take a step or two closer to achieving their writing dreams. Rachel has previously self-published a trilogy, the first of which achieved bestseller status in fourteen Amazon categories in the UK, US, Australia and Canada and is now seeking her traditional publishing debut with her latest manuscript. You can find out more about Rachel via her Instagram @RachelDavidsonAuthor<\/a><\/strong>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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