Jaye Marie and Anita Dawes

Hello SErs! Harmony here. I hope this finds you all well. This is the fourth and final week of our writing flash fiction series of posts. I hope you’ve enjoyed them so far. In case you’ve missed the first three posts, here they are:

• ONE … Your Hook
• TWO … Problem/Interruption
• THREE … Escalation

This week, we look at resolution and how to write your story ending. Now, if you’ve been following along by writing a short story beginning and middle, here is where you might want to shoot me, lol. Here goes …

Before you can write your ending, you need to have a key–something upon which your twist ending can pivot. That key needs writing early in the story, somewhere in the escalation phase. So, why, you might ask, have I not mentioned this until now? For the simple reason that we often don’t know the ending until…