: 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.

I once heard it said that the ideal ending is both completely expected and completely unexpected at the same time. Your job throughout the story is to build the audience's desire for the ending you will give them, without giving away the details of how it will happen.

If you really have the perfect ending, then the beginning will be implicit in it in some way. Just ask yourself what conditions will be the same at the beginning of the story, and what conditions will be the opposite? What travels in a circle in your plot, and what travels in a straight line? What has to change to transform the conditions of the beginning to the conditions of the end, and how will those changes take place?

To give the same advice in more concrete terms, consider it in this way: Every trip that ends needed to begin. Every adult was once a child. Every pair of lovers were once strangers. Everyone who is dead was once alive. Anyone who is wise was once foolish. Anyone who has learned was once taught. Many who are rich were once poor, and who are poor were once rich. Look at the important conditions of your ending, and consider their oppositions or antecedents.

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