Ending Sentences and Astrology Signs #OnWriting

Evoke emotion by stimulating the reader's imagination

Hawaii Fiction Writers members met to discuss and read ending sentences in written works that illustrate the importance of culminating a story with information that will leave the reader satisfied. Whether someone has taken time to read a novel, short story, or haiku, they want to feel the time was well spent, that the take-away is worth the time.

Good book endings should do as least some of these: 

1. Conclude the story. (Cliffhangers are for chapter endings, not for sequels coming out next year!)

2. Foreshadow the future.

3. Provoke thought. (One of my favorites points.)

4. Evoke emotion (like a stimulating photograph.)

5. Give a call to action. (The final sentence of my genealogical novel encourages "others to write or tell their own stories.")

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During the second half of the meeting, guest speaker Rachel Funk Heller shared information about her soon-to-be-published novel, The Eclipse Killer, involving a series of ghoulish murders in San Francisco. Solving the cases rests with a gifted astrologer and owner of a metaphysical bookstore. 

Rachel's talk culminated in an interesting and informative discussion about tarot cards and astrology, lunar cycles, and the moon's influence upon tides and rivers.

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