Groovy endings

Garpy · Jul 15, 2005

I'm a big fan of that final parting shot before you type 'the end'. I guess it's your last chance to impress before you say goodbye to the reader. I just wondered if anyone here can recall some really fine final sentences?

I recently finished my 2nd novel, 'Ellie Quin'. Two girls have escaped the bad guys, but one of them, Sal, it appears has died in the arms of her friend, Ellie, from a gunshot wound....a single tear from Ellie drops down onto Sal.

the novel ends thus....

With a groan she stirred. 'Uughh....this would be such a great moment to savour, if this didn't hurt so ****ing much, and you weren't dribbling on my face.

The End

I think I was worrying about the ending being too shmaltzy ;-)

JerseyGirl1962 · Jul 15, 2005

Garpy,

Sure worked for me...made my day at my suddenly increasingly stressful job...

~Nancy

Vomaxx · Jul 15, 2005

He drew a deep breath. "Well, I'm back," he said.

Very nice ending, IMHO.

maestrowork · Jul 15, 2005

You gave the endings away! Now we'll never buy your books.

Here's how mine ends:

"Alas!" he exclaimed. "It's all a dream."

The End

ANNIE · Jul 15, 2005

Vomaxx said:
He drew a deep breath. "Well, I'm back," he said.

Very nice ending, IMHO.

Hey you stole the ending I was gonig to quote! LOL

aadams73 · Jul 15, 2005

The ending of mine is new and highly original...it goes something like this:

"Frankly my dear, I don't give a damn."

azbikergirl · Jul 15, 2005

My last sentence actually wraps up a subplot in the novel. IMO, the last sentence is almost as important as the first.

PattiTheWicked · Jul 15, 2005

My WIP (which is currently undergoing a major and possibly final revision) ends:

"She has loved him for two hundred years, and will love him for two hundred more. Catharine and Will walk into the shadows once more, and I know I will see them again, for they are my ghosts. They will love each other, wholly, completely, for eternity.

So much that it burns."

That final line came to me about ten pages into the ms, and I wrote it on a Post It and stuck it over my desk, because I knew that it was where I eventually had to go.

Button · Jul 15, 2005

Mine used to end in a kiss, back when I wrote romantic suspense.

Now that it's fantasy, I've been writing endings that the last chapter ends in some sort of "the end is only the beginning" sort of endings. That way sequels are open.

Vomaxx · Jul 15, 2005

ANNIE said:
Hey you stole the ending I was gonig to quote! LOL

Great minds think alike. :ROFL:

jules · Jul 16, 2005

ButtonTheCat said:
Now that it's fantasy, I've been writing endings that the last chapter ends in some sort of "the end is only the beginning" sort of endings. That way sequels are open.

Me too. My current two WIPs end like this:

As she swung the bottle around and smashed it onto the wall of the ship's bridge, she said, "I name this ship the ECS Michael Lantz. May all those who sail in her be protected from harm."

and

Camlik bowed graciously, as much to conceal the grin on his face as out of politeness to his former peers. Now was the time to set his plans in motion.

They were sure to succeed.

(n.b. Camlik is the antagonist...)

Groovy endings

Garpy

keyboard monkey

JerseyGirl1962

I heart Malamutes! :-)

Vomaxx

maestrowork

Fear the Death Ray

ANNIE

aadams73

A Work in Progress

azbikergirl

I really do look like this.

PattiTheWicked

Unleashing Hell.

Button

Resident in Question

Vomaxx

jules

Bored fanatic