How to ruin an ending
Apart from the irony of starting the blog by talking about endings, a rather specific pet peeve of mine is when a genuinely intriguing narrative is completely botched by an underwhelming or in severe cases, an extremely mediocre ending. Now endings are crucial to whatever you are trying to make. The finishing touches to your clearly plagiarized painting, the closing sentence of your Statement of Purpose to that prestigious university for which you clearly do not have the grades for, and the ending for the story which took you 6 years to finish because of your slothfulness (I still have yet to finish mine, so it doesn't count). How you present it and how it wraps up everything that came before dictates how effective an ending can be. Now to quite an extent this topic is subjective as everyone's tastes are different. Personal biases tend to cloud one's judgement of what is a well-written ending as from their point of view, the ending made them feel satisfied, which isn'...