I’m home from the hospital recovering from pneumonia. But as we come to the final chapter of 2025, I thought I’d post some of my tips from earlier posts on how to end your novel or memoir. If you’re like most writers, you may have trouble getting that final chapter to do what it needs to do. That’s because it needs to wrap up all the loose ends of the story in a way that satisfies the reader. But it also needs–as Mickey Spillane said— to sell the next book.

I’m hoping these tips can help.

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