: Re: How important is it to know the end before the writing the beginning? One of the Rules of writing indicates that knowing the end before the beginning is critical to writing. Which I find odd,

@Debbie451

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Like all rules, this can be broken if the end result is what you want.

Some people are "discovery writers" (aka "pants writers"). They just sit down to write, and watch the story unfold as if they were watching TV. Some people have to have everything structured and sketched out before they begin.

There's no wrong way to do it. If you get to the end, decide you like it, and then rework the rest to fit the end, congratulations: you did it right. If you get to the end, decide you hate it, and change it, congratulations: you did it right.

As long as the finished, edited story works so that all the pieces throughout point to the end, or don't, as you intend, it doesn't matter how you arrived at the end, or any piece in between, on any draft.

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