{"id":319,"date":"2012-10-23T04:26:00","date_gmt":"2012-10-23T04:26:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/bestfantasynovel.com\/2012\/10\/23\/do-you-need-to-know-how-your-book-will-end-before-you-begin\/"},"modified":"2012-10-23T04:26:00","modified_gmt":"2012-10-23T04:26:00","slug":"do-you-need-to-know-how-your-book-will-end-before-you-begin","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/taramayastales.com\/bestfantasynovel\/2012\/10\/23\/do-you-need-to-know-how-your-book-will-end-before-you-begin\/","title":{"rendered":"Do You Need To Know How Your Book Will End Before You Begin?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Looking back at all the on all the books I&#8217;ve started, I noticed that some stories I never managed to get further than a few chapters. I&#8217;ve accumulated dozens of Chapters One through Three on a particular tale I&#8217;ve been struggling over on and off for years. What&#8217;s wrong with these stories? What makes them different from the ones I started and finished?<\/p>\n<p>It&#8217;s not that I never struggled with the books I eventually finished. Often I left them and came back multiple times. But I realized that there was a crucial difference. The stories I was able to come back to were the stories whose <i>ending I already knew<\/i>.<\/p>\n<p>The mechanics of getting to that ending might have stumped me for a while. But even if I had to switch my car for a plane a few times, I knew my destination. I knew the payoff. That&#8217;s what kept me going.<\/p>\n<p><span>I try always to begin a novel with the end in mind. The end may change along the journey, but at the start, I find knowing where I\u2019m headed is crucial.<\/span><\/p>\n<p>e e<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Looking back at all the on all the books I&#8217;ve started, I noticed that some stories I never managed to get further than a few chapters. I&#8217;ve accumulated dozens of Chapters One through Three on a particular tale I&#8217;ve been struggling over on and off for years. What&#8217;s wrong with these stories? What makes them [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-319","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/taramayastales.com\/bestfantasynovel\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/319","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/taramayastales.com\/bestfantasynovel\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/taramayastales.com\/bestfantasynovel\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/taramayastales.com\/bestfantasynovel\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/taramayastales.com\/bestfantasynovel\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=319"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/taramayastales.com\/bestfantasynovel\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/319\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/taramayastales.com\/bestfantasynovel\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=319"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/taramayastales.com\/bestfantasynovel\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=319"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/taramayastales.com\/bestfantasynovel\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=319"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}