6 TYPES OF MOST POPULAR STORY ENDING IN NOVEL WRITING

In writing novels, short stories, romances or any literary works of fiction, there are at least 6 types of story endings that are the most popular. You can easily find these 6 types of endings in many extraordinary works, both by Indonesian and international writers.

So, what are the 6 types of story endings and how do you write them?

The 6 Most Common Types of Story Ending in Novel, Short Story and Movies

When talking about the types of endings for films, novels or any story, there are at least 10 types of endings that can be practiced. However, if this number is narrowed down again as the most popular type of story ending, then there are only six types of endings that are commonly practiced.

Ending is the final chapter of the story where the writer closes the story they tell. As an ending, the ending should be able to answer the various problems presented in the story. Interestingly, in practice the ending itself is not the case.

Some endings may answer all existing conflicts with a complete resolution. While the other endings are the opposite. But the point is, the ending is a writer's way of closing their story, regardless of the techniques and consequences.

Some of the most widely used endings to close a story itself are as follows:

Complete Ending or Resolved Ending

The first type of ending in writing a story or film is a resolved ending, this is the type of ending that you can find very easily and very simply.

"In the end they lived happily forever"

"Prince Frog then turned into a human after getting a kiss from Princes, then he took beautiful princes to the palace and they married and lived as queens of the king until the end of life"

Those are two examples of happy endings in stories that you certainly often hear. In addition to being examples of stories that have a happy ending, the two examples above are also examples of endings being resolved.

So, what exactly is meant by the complete ending?

Complete ending is a term I use personally. However, the meaning of ending resolved is where the end of the story is able to answer all the conflicts that occur and leave no other questions in the mind of the reader (completed).

But remember, the ending is complete or the ending resolved does not have to be a happy ending. Under certain conditions, the complete ending can also be in the form of a bad ending, sad ending or tragic ending.

But the point is, a resolved ending leaves no more questions about the continuation of the story, characters and plot after the ending is written.

Unfinished Ending or Unresolved Ending

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"Then about what, Mas?" Elya's heart was pounding with curiosity.

"The South Peak that the Tatras and Derrick climbed a month ago collapsed..."

"Oh ..., then, Mas Sulis?" Elya nodded, she couldn't understand what Sulis really meant, but she felt as if her chest suddenly tightened.

"Tatras is climbing it, Ms. Elya. He's been there for three days."

This time, Sulis' words seemed as if the right lightning hit Elya's head, her vision suddenly dark, the cellphone in her hand was released, Elya suddenly fell unconscious.

"Elya!"

Elya's ears could still catch her mother's screams, Merlin's and Tatiana's screams at the same time. He also still felt that there were several hands trying to lift his body. But Elya couldn't see anything, her world seemed to have turned so dark and dense.

Merapi Barat Daya – Anton Sujarwo

I can confidently tell the readers of the Writer's blog that the novel Merapi Barat Daya is an example of a story ending with an unresolved ending. The end of this story does end one main conflict in the story but also opens another, bigger conflict.

In addition to using the term unresolved ending, this kind of ending is also often referred to as a cliffhanger ending or a hanging ending.

The practice is that when the story ends, there are still questions in the reader's mind about what really happened to the characters, what happened next in the plot, and so on.

In other words, an unresolved ending or an unfinished ending that still leaves tension even though the story itself has ended.

Expanded Ending

The main characteristic of this type of ending is the use of an epilogue as a closing story. So, after the main conflict ended, the writer added a small part that was placed at the end of the story which actually made the horizon of the story wider and farther.

If you're writing a story that has a complicated plot and might not be easy for all readers to understand, using an epilogue is a great ending to choose. In an epilogue you can reframe your story to convey its most important message to the reader.

An extended ending is simply a way of ending a story by expanding its own narrative which in many cases involves a time jump, a perspective jump, as well as a storytelling point of view.

One of the interesting advantages of using the expanded ending is that you have the opportunity to answer questions that may not have been answered in the main story. For example, what is the fate of the characters in the story 10 years later and so on.

An interesting example that you can find about the expanded ending is the novel War and Peace by Leo Tolstoy.

Surprise Ending or Unexpected Ending

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Creating a surprise ending is a serious challenge in writing a story of any genre. It takes a original and natural condition to create an unexpected ending because without a natural impression, a surprise ending is not liked by many readers.

Surprise ending really presents an ending that surprises the reader, which is completely unexpected. The characteristic of a good story ending in the context of this kind of surprise ending, it should not feel forced.

When conflict resolution is carried out with pressure that is too forced, the appeal of the story will evaporate. Giving a story ending by presenting something that came out of nowhere and suddenly can solve everything, is a bad idea.

So, again if you want to choose a surprise ending in your story, do it naturally.

An example of a good ending for the category of a surprise ending as well as an unresolved ending is the Merapi Barat Daya novel.

Confusing Ending or Ambiguous Ending

Confusing endings or ambiguous endings have a way of working that may be almost the same as cliffhanger endings. But in essence, the substance of the two types of endings is very different.

The hanging ending or unresolved ending is the end of a story that leaves questions in the reader's mind about what will happen next because the tension of the story is not over. This can be in terms of the characters, the plot or the conflict.

While the ambiguous ending does not leave such tension but leaves questions in the reader's mind about the actual ending of the story.

In ambiguous endings, the interpretation between one reader and another can be different.

Interestingly, ambiguous ending is also considered as the only type of story ending that invites the reader to enter more into the story to interpret the ending of the conflict.

In films, there are many examples of this kind of ambiguous and confusing ending.

Some examples that you might be able to prove, for example, are; The Thing (1983), Enemy (2013), Inception (2010), and Blade Runner (1982).

Circle Ending

This is the kind of ending that takes the reader back to the beginning of the story. Horror stories, thrillers are generally the most widely adopted this kind of ending.

In the circle ending, you will see the last parts of the closing sentence of the story that directs you as a reader to the beginning of the story. In other words, the circle ending will end the story where they started the story before. Just like a circle.

A fairly popular example of the use of this circle ending is the hitman series entitled Wrong Turn.

In this film you can see that the villains are always the opening and closing of the film.

 

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