: Re: How do I create the rest of the story when I only know the ending? I know the ending of the first book I want to write but, I'm not sure how to start it or what will happen in the middle.

@Welton431

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I will offer a word of caution.

Whilst I do like Filip's answer above, and would have said everything the same, I feel like I must provide this footnote.

In the context of this question being about how to write, I have a method that I will share with you.

I have done a the exact same thing before, beginning a story with the ending, and realized that I could not find a beginning that fits, or even makes sense. I have spent many hours/ days trying to shoehorn a mediocre story into a great ending.

But once I started writing the story, it just didn't feel quite right. It wasn't the story that the ending deserved.

So I would recommend this: shelve it.

I know, it's not the answer that you wanted to hear, but if you are really excited about the story ending then it deserves a good story to get there.

Write your ending down, and then file it away somewhere. I have done this with many things: beginnings, middles, endings, themes, interesting characters, and have them all sorted neatly.

And one day, it might be tomorrow, it might be two years from now, you will think of a story that you want to write, and you won't have an ending, and you'll look through your endings folder and you will find this ending, and it will just fit.

The story will elevate your ending, a lot of details may even likely change in it, (characters and locations etc.) but you will realize that this is the story that the ending was always supposed to have.

But don't try to create a Frankenstein's Monster of a story.

Some of the first things that I ever wrote that I was really excited about still haven't found a home, and others have changed over time beyond all recognition, but the root of that original good idea that you have still exists within them.

Hope this helps.

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