Endings

      Endings are important because if they are not satisfying to the reader, the entire story may be deemed a failure.
      When my kids were toddlers, I would occasionally sit on the edge of their beds and tell them "bed time" stories to help them get to sleep. I recall a time I was doing that with my youngest daughter -making up a story and providing vivid detail until I thought it was time for her to go to sleep. So I ended the story abruptly and told her good night. And she said, "That wasn't a very good story." Had she been older and more succinct, she would have said, "That was a lousy ending." And she was right. But to her, the whole story fell flat on its face.
     Whether it be fact or fiction, novel or speech to the local Lions Club, pay as much attention to your ending as you do to the rest of the work.
      Strive to do what gymnasts must do - stick the landing.